James Counts Early is joined by historian and activist Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss Robin’s career work on racial capitalism, multiculturalism and identity, and the history of the struggle for socialism.

James Counts Early is joined by scholar and activist, Zuleica Romay Guerra, to discuss how Cubans think, debate, and act on the nexus of national, racial and class identity and the history of anti-racism activism and government policy.

James Counts Early is joined by historian and activist Hakim Adi, to discuss history as a tool for social and political change and what we can learn from the participation of colonized people, particularly Black and African peoples, in the global communist movement of the early twentieth century.

James Counts Early is joined by activist and historian, Jesus “Chucho” Garcia, to discuss Chucho’s experience working alongside the Venezuelan government and social organizations to further the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution. They also discuss Chucho’s understanding of “Afro-epistemology,” the struggle for reparations in Latin America, and the complexities of building towards true democracy.

James Counts Early is joined by activist and doctor, Mary Louise Patterson, to discuss Mary Louise’s upbringing under two leading organizers with the Communist Party USA, the importance of community and family in the lifelong struggle for liberation, and her Cuba solidarity work with IFCO/Pastors for Peace.

James Counts Early is joined by Cuban author, economist, social scientist, and militant member of the Communist Party of Cuba, Esteban Morales Domínguez to discuss race and discrimination in Cuba, how to deepen the achievements of the 1959 Revolution, and the dynamism of building a future under socialism.

James Counts Early is joined by historian, author, and activist Barbara Ransby to discuss the important legacy of Black feminism and how capitalism cannot be undone without the destroying patriarchy, the current and active history of the Black Lives Matter movement, and why the struggle for Black liberation in the U.S. must be connected to global struggles for liberation.

The guest for this episode is Divina Lopes, popular educator, organizer, and militant member of the National Coordination of the Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST) or Landless Workers’ Movement. She describes esperança as “to hope through doing.” In this episode, they discuss the MST’s struggle for land as a form of esperança for the Brazilian working class, whose land and fundamental human rights have been attacked and eroded under the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro.

James Counts Early is joined by popular educator, organizer, and researcher with the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Mikaela Nhondo Erskog. In their discussion Mika provides a brief history of the national liberation and socialist projects on the African continent and how the intensification of current capitalist crises reveals a need for the resurgence of these projects.

James becomes the interviewee and he discusses the personal and historical currents that developed his radicalization and informed his politics. They also discuss the conversations that led to the creation of New World Coming along with the legacy of Black liberation and socialist movements and struggles that we have drawn upon in this project. Finally, James shares his analysis of the role of identity expression in our movement, not as categories that divide us but as historical expressions of class struggle that unite us.