Jacobin Radio Folgen

Aditya Chakraborty on the British election, BoJo, Brexit, and the state of the Labour Party. Then, Nathan Robinson, author of Why You Should Be a Socialist, on that very topic.

We need Bernie but a lot more too. Dan does three interviews with down-ballot left insurgent candidates: Jessica Cisneros, a Justice Democrat running against incumbent conservative Democrat Henry Cuellar in Texas’s 28th congressional district; Stephen Smith, who is running a populist campaign for West Virginia governor; and Heidi Sloan, a DSA candidate in the Democratic primary for Texas’s 25th Republican-held 25th congressional district.Thanks to University of California Press. Check out their huge selection of titles at ucpress.eduPlease support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

There's no way around it: the recent election results in the UK were crushing for the Left. But they also weren't the referendum on socialist policies that centrist pundits would have you believe they were. Micah talked about this with David Broder, Jacobin's Europe editor. David wrote two articles for Jacobin in the wake of the election, which you can read here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/<wbr />2019/12/uk-election-results-<wbr />labour https://www.jacobinmag.com/<wbr />2019/12/labour-party-uk-<wbr />brexit-jeremy-corbyn-general-<wbr />election