In this episode, Samuel Karlin speaks to André Barbieri about the upcoming election in Brazil, in which current president Lula is in a dead heat with far-right candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. They discuss the context of declining U.S. hegemony, in which President Trump seeks to subordinate Latin America — including Brazil — to U.S. imperialist interests. Importantly, André describes how Lula's conciliatory stance toward the Right has fueled Flavio Bolsonaro's rise, and the need for the Brazilian working class to organize, independently and from below, to defeat the Right and U.S. imperialism for good.

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- Beyond Trumpification: Latin America's Deepening Organic Crisis

- Brazil’s Supreme Court in Crisis as Alexandre de Moraes Faces Investigation

- At the Global Progressive Mobilization Conference, Lula’s Speech Was a Confession by a Neoliberal Administrator

- Lula-Trump Meeting: “Love at First Sight” in Submission, Dependence, and the Surrender of Natural Resources

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Jeffrey Epstein's decades of systematic sexual abuse ensnared some of the richest and most powerful members of the capitalist class. How was it possible? And why has no one, besides Epstein and Ghisleine Maxwell, faced accountability?

In this episode, we unpack the capitalism and patriarchy at the heart of the scandal. After all, a system where people are forced to sell their labor and depend on capitalists for survival is one where people like Epstein can mask their abuse by providing a paycheck or a visa. And because the horizon of liberal feminism is women's greater incorporation into this exploitative system, this movement has stayed largely silent on the scale of Epstein's abuse. In fact, liberal feminism is entrenched in the institutions of the state itself.

The antidote is socialist feminism, and fighting capitalism and patriarchy at its root to dismantle this exploitative system that makes wide-scale abuse possible.

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- The Crimes of the “Epstein Class” Are Rooted in Patriarchy and Capitalism: The Answer Is Socialist Feminism

- Epstein Files: Trump, Republicans and Democrats Are Responsible for the Over 1,000 Victims

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Queer liberation is incompatible with capitalism, because queer oppression inscribed in capitalist production and reproduction. In this episode, we explain why, and how socialism can create the context for queer liberation and sexual liberation for all.

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• Queer Oppression is Etched in the Heart of Capitalism
• For a Pride Against Capitalism, Imperialism, and the Far Right
• Whither Queer Liberation?
• The Supreme Court Is Endangering Far More than Trans Athletes — We Must Fight Back

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