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Isabella Kajiwara and Lola Olufemi discuss the importance of remembering Claudia Jones as a communist, acknowledging the exile and persecution she faced due to McCarthyism in the U.S. and how her life was shaped by state violence and surveillance.

Zoe and Larissa go back to radical rests’ roots in Black Womanist Thought and Crip Theory to understand how we actually tackle the social conditioning of toxic productivity under white supremacist capitalism.

In this episode, Zoe and Larissa speak with a PhD student, Raees Noorbhai, who is an organiser with 10 years of experience fighting for free education at Wits University.

This week, Zoe and Larissa discuss historical wins and how debt abolition is a necessity in our demands for climate justice.

How do I make my street into a renewable power station?

the fare strike as a bold social justice tactic, where collective refusal to pay transit fares, or drivers' refusal to collect them, becomes a tool to demand more equitable public services

How can we use the media, the limitations of mainstream channels, and how do we build alternatives?

Zoe and Larissa explore the history of the commons and the violent enclosures that helped birth capitalism.

Zoe and Larissa are joined by Kata from Extinction Rebellion Serbia to break down how radical solidarity between students and workers turned campus anger into nationwide power.

With fascism rising, military-industrial-complex raging, and borders hardening, are we still marching toward change or just marching in place?

The role of art and cultural production in resistance in the autobiographical account of Rigoberta Menchú, a Mayan Indigenous K’iche woman

The Trinity of Fundamentals by former Palestinian political prisoner, Wisam Rafeedie, is a semi-autobiographical account of his nine years in hiding from the occupation, penned from an Israeli prison.