left lectures

Jon Livingston, Marty Gellen, Franz Schurmann, Jim Peck, Peter Dale Scott and Banning Garrett discuss the Pentagon Papers.

Dhoruba Bin Wahad - The Rise of Democratic Fascism: Post-60s Revision of Black Radicalism in America and the Corporate National-Security-State

Prof. Kathleen Cleaver - State Repression of the Black Panthers

the crises of deregulated banking and financial transactions occur on a cyclical basis

What would the United States do if a movement for social change arose in a Latin American country that had demonstrably no connection, of any sort, with any Socialist Bloc country? In other words, what if there was really no way you could say this is all directed from Havana, and this is all being manipulated from Moscow? Would the United States support radical social change, land reform, reorganization of the economy, disfranchisement of the class in these economies that has traditionally been arrogating to itself the enormous shares of wealth that is typical of these countries? I think the answer is obvious. The United States of course would not support that kind of revolution. The United States has never supported any kind of revolution.”

Dr. Richard Wolff’s monthly economic update

you dumb boy. that ain't me

a good backgrounder on Ron Paul’s crypto-fascist origins and beliefs, explained by post-militia Christian conspiracy dudes (which gives it more standing imo)

lecture delivered sometime after the invasion of Iraq and the revelations around U.S.-sanctioned detainee abuse

Prof. Richard Falk - Consequences of Anti-Communism: Growth of the National Security State

If you lived with a person as unstable as capitalism, you would have moved out long ago.”

Global Capitalism: What Now? Economics and the New Government [NOVEMBER 2016]

Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet - April 4, 1964

Dave Emory and Nip Tuck - Agent Provocateurs, COINTELPRO, and the Smashing Of “Left-Wing” Movements

This lecture touches on the difficulties of finding and maintaining legitimate, uncompromised black leadership within a white power structure. Specifically, Mr. Maddox describes the political situation in the mid-1990s nationally as well as locally in New York City. Jesse Jackson serves as a case study for ineffective black leadership. Mr. Maddox analyzes Rudy Guliani and Al Sharpton’s mayorial campaigns.