**Note: This episode contains a lot of discussion of screenshares. Unfortunately, we didn't do the best job describing every graph for audio listeners, so watch the video edition if you are interested in seeing the graphs cited and the slides prepared by the guest.***

Filmmaker Dror Dayan returns to the show to provide us with an overview of the Zionist media machine in Occupied Palestine.

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A two-part episode with academic and translator Mujamma Harakat about the historical trajectory of actors, social forces, and ideaologies that propelled the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) in Palestine from its early history to today.

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**Producer's note: The folks at Popular Front asked me to moderate this discusssion of Gabriel Rockhill's latest book on the history of the Frankfurt School. Make sure to check out Popular Front!**

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We're thrilled to host author and philosopher Gabriel Rockhill on his book tour in Toronto. One of the key intellectuals of our movement today, his latest work explores ideas that are essential to understanding the challenges and necessities in building a socialist movement—especially for those of us living in the West.

Starting with a talk from the author, followed by a discussion with a guest panel and an audience Q&A – this will be an important evening to explore the past, present, and future of socialist thought, and the principles we need to uphold in order to succeed (which the ruling class desperately wants us to abandon).

Featuring an exciting guest panel, including:
Sina Rahmani (co-host)
Sardana Nikolaeva
Justin Podur
Zeyad El-Nabolsy

Special thanks to our partners in co-organizing this event:
Qiao Collective (@qiaocollective)
Critical Theory Workshop (@criticaltheoryworkshop)
Monthly Review (@monthlyreview)
East is a Podcast (@eastpodcast)
And to our additional media partners: Anti-Empire Project (@jpodur)
Journal of International Solidarity (@journalofintlsolidarity)

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ABOUT THE BOOK:
"Rockhill's book elucidates how the intellectual world war on the socialist alternative has sought to promote a "compatible left" intelligentsia while misrepresenting, maligning, and trying to destroy the revolutionary left. […] The volume concludes by bringing to the fore the guiding methodological framework: a thoroughly anticolonial and anti-imperialist Marxism dedicated to building socialism in the real world."

More info at Monthly Review Press:
https://monthlyreview.org/9781685901349/

Canada: Available at most online book sellers, including University of Toronto Bookstore: https://utpdistribution.com/9781685901349/who-paid-the-pipers-of-western-marxism/