Behind the News: Communism and Black Liberation w/ Jodi Dean

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Berkshire discusses the latest version of right-wing school politics (since the last versions haven’t been working for them). Then Doug interviews Jodi Dean, co-editor (along with Charisse Burden-Stelly) of Organize, Fight, Win, a collection of Black Communist women’s writings from the late 1920s into the early 1950s.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Henrywood.
0:36.0	I apologize to the wretched state of my voice.
0:38.0	I've had a nasty cold all week.
0:40.0	Must be that immune deficit.
0:42.0	The usual two for the price of one today.
0:44.0	We'll hear from the education journalist Jennifer Berkshire
0:46.0	and what the right is up to with the schools.
0:48.0	After they hit their agenda, took in the recent elections.
0:51.0	And then Jody Dean will talk about a book she co-edited
0:53.0	on the writings of early and mid-20th century black communist women.
0:57.0	The right ran hard on the anti-woke agenda in the recent midterm elections
1:00.0	and mostly didn't do very well.
1:02.0	A focal point was the schools,
1:04.0	wherein their fevered view a hardened band of cultural Marxists
1:08.0	led by teachers union president Randy Weingarden,
1:11.0	who actually on planet earth is a Hillary Clinton Democrat,
1:14.0	are indoctrinating kids into becoming anti-white and non-binary.
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