The Left is Dead

European Political Turmoil - Jim on Sputnik's Critical Hour 9-9

Jim speaks with Dr. Wilmer Leon on how Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier as France's prime minister after securing Marine Le Pen's agreement. He also reports on the mass protests erupting in France after Macron picked Barnier as Prime Minister and an interview with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who says, "pithy sayings are not part of my approach to politics."

47 - When Did Spaniards Become White? ft. Amanda Moore

Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup) returns to discuss her visit to our hometown following Nick Fuentes and his AFPAC tour's stop in Detroit (the A stands for Asshole or something). How are the groypers integrating into TPUSA and the GOP, and why are they letting these no-good Mediterranean bums lead it? Amanda explains why the far right doesn't even really fucking care (and somehow even apparently encourages) Spaniards to be white now in the face of the Demoncrats' alleged Satanic multiculturalism as well as a host of other topics. Despite that, most of the conversation revolves around our experiences together outside America's Buttfest (or whatever the TPUSA Detroit conference was called this summer as well as the future potential of several stripes of the freak-right going forward Enjoy.

46 - Back to the Shore ft. Harvey Schwartz

In this episode Jim speaks with labor historian Harvey Schwartz, author of Labor under Siege: Big Bob McEllrath and the ILWU's Fight for Organized Labor in an Anti-Union Era. Labor Under Siege is is an oral history prepared with Ronald Magden that chronicles how a mature American workers’ organization, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), survived serious challenges in recent decades from employers, government agencies, and even other unions. It won an Independent Publisher Book Awards (aka IPPY) gold medal, a Nautilus Book Awards silver prize, a National Indie Excellence Awards winner designation, and was an Independent Publishers of New England Book Awards finalist. A prior volume, Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers’ Oral History (University of Washington Press), was a Nautilus Book Awards silver winner in 2016. It recounts how ironworkers and other construction craftspeople overcame dangerous job conditions and the hardships of the Great Depression to build one of America’s most iconic bridges. In this interview Jim and Harvey discuss the post-Harry Bridges era of the ILWU, their victories in the anti-union neoliberal era and what lessons the new wave of labor organizers can learn from the historically radical union.

45 - The Napoleon Episode

Congratulations! If you're reading this, it means you're still listening after my extended break due to a car accident> What better way to come back than releasing the forgotten Napoleon episode. If there was one movie made for this show, it was Joker Phoenix's take on L'empereur in 2023's Napoleon, a piece of weird incel propaganda by Ridley Scott after he waws clearly driven insane by the success of 2022's Top Gun: Maverick. I'll be back with more when Scott releases his promised director's cut later this year.

Jim on The Backstory: Biden & Israel's Carte Blanche

James Carey, Activist, Analyst, and Podcast Host of The Left is Dead spoke to Backstory host Rachel Blevins about the US allowing Israel to strike southern Gaza, Israel targeting more hospitals in Gaza, and Biden seemingly being afraid to criticize Israel. James talked about the bombing campaign by Israel and how the American people will normalize the deaths that continue to occur in Gaza, at the hands of Israel.