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Red Menace
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Red Menace is a podcast that explains and analyzes revolutionary theory and then applies its lessons to our contemporary conditions.
Hosted by Alyson Escalante and Breht O'Shea.
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The Worldwide Family of Militant Women
2w ago01:34:16Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Breht and Alyson sit down with Arlene Eisen to discuss her new memoir, In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women. Eisen reflects on her political formation across the upheavals of the 1960s through the early 1980s, her encounters with Black liberation and anti-imperialist struggle, and the forgotten history of militant women who built relationships of solidarity across borders. Together they explore internationalism, revolutionary commitment, movement fragmentation, and what younger generations can still learn from an era when women fought empire not from the margins, but from the heart of the struggle. The result is a rich conversation about memory, political development, and the urgent need to build durable anti-imperialist movements in our own time. ----------------------------- Check out a great new resource for revolutionary education, Unlearning Capitalism: https://unlearn.capital/ Follow, Subscribe, & Learn more about Rev Left Radio https://revleftradio.com/
Transcribe →The Iran War: A Dialectical and Historical Materialist Analysis
Apr 902:25:01Tap to summarizeAlyson and Breht apply dialectical and historical materialist analysis to the current war of aggression in Iran. Together they break down the Marxist methodology into its three main parts - dialectics, materialism, and history - and showcase how they apply to the US and Israeli war on Iran, before bringing them back together into a coherent whole. Then they compare and contrast dialectical and historical materialism as a mode of analysis to other forms of analysis: from academic modes like liberal internationalism and Realism to common popular modes like conspiracy theories and moralism. Throughout the process, they aim to show the superior clarity and demystification offered by Marxism in understanding our world, as it unfolds in real time. ---------------------------------------------------- Check out our NEW REV LEFT MERCH with Goods For The People HERE Follow, Subscribe, & Learn more about Rev Left Radio https://revleftradio.com/
Transcribe →Iran Under Attack
Mar 201:43:52Tap to summarizeOn this YT livestream (3/1/26) Alyson and Breht discuss the illegal war of aggression launched by the US and Israel against Iran. Throughout the discussion they take live questions from the chat. https://www.youtube.com/@revleftradio ---------------------------------------------------- Support Rev Left and get access to bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Make a one-time donation to Rev Left at BuyMeACoffee.com/revleftradio Follow, Subscribe, & Learn more about Rev Left Radio https://revleftradio.com/
Transcribe →Guillotines for the Epstein Class
Feb 1701:46:42Tap to summarizeAlyson and Breht discuss a range of current events, including Cuba, the Epstein Files, Iran and much more. Make a donation to Socialist Night School via Venmo @OmahaNightSchool Outro Song: "to each their dot" by Haley Heynderickx & Max Garcia Conover
Transcribe →Minneapolis on Fire
Jan 2501:23:23Tap to summarizeBreht discusses recent events in Minneapolis... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Outro Music: Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover - Song For Alicia
Transcribe →Jesus Christ Beyond Belief: A Mystical Reading of the Gospels
Dec 2402:11:52Tap to summarizeIn this Christmas special, Alyson and Breht reinterpret Jesus through Jewish mysticism, Christian contemplative traditions, and Buddhist conceptions of Enlightenment, offering an understanding of his teachings and words as attempts to articulate the ineffable and non-dual, rather than metaphysical propositions to be believed. Drawing heavily on the Gospels, the Gospel of Thomas, the Christian concept of Agape, and early Christian scholarship, they explore the possibility of a Christianity beyond fear, hell, and conceptual belief -- one rooted in a radical transformation of consciousness, a revolutionary confrontation with injustice everywhere, and an embodied love for all creation. Outro Song: Time to Wake Up by Pat the Bunny ---------------------------------------------------- Follow, Subscribe, & Learn more about Red Menace: https://revleftradio.com/
Transcribe →(Teaser) The Anti-Human Nihilism of the Techno-Oligarchs
Nov 3000:15:32Tap to summarizeThis is a small snippet from a much larger patreon exclusive episode, which you can sign up for (and support the show in the process) here: www.patreon.com/revleftradio
Transcribe →The Years of Lead in Italy: Strategy of Tension, Operation Gladio, & the Long 1970s
Nov 2401:47:01Tap to summarizeMost people, even on the Left, only know fragments of Italy's "Years of Lead." This episode pulls the whole picture into focus: the mass worker upsurge after the boom years, the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and the death of Giuseppe Pinelli, the rise of the Red Brigades, the kidnapping and execution of Aldo Moro, and the 1980 Bologna massacre. Alyson and Breht trace how far-right stragismo (mass bombings) intersected with far-left clandestinism, and how segments of the deep state, intelligence services, and the Cold War Gladio architecture shaped a strategy of tension that isolated the movements, kept the socialist and communist left from power, and cleared the way for the establishment of neoliberalism in Italy and beyond. Alyson and Breht then discuss what lessons we can learn from this history and if there are any similarities to the contemporary United States. Check out our episode on the Italian fascist Julius Evola HERE Check out our episode on Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Political HERE Learn more at www.revleftradio.com
Transcribe →Ceasefire in Gaza, The Monroe Doctrine Under Trump, and a US Economy on the Brink of Collapse
Oct 1301:42:15Tap to summarizeAlyson and Breht analyze current events, including the ceasefire in Gaza and its implications, the newest round of US imperialist aggression against Venezuela, Regime Change aspirations in Iran and Venezuela, the absolutely horrific state of the American economy, the AI bubble, Free Speech, ICE raids, and more. Learn more about the show at https://revleftradio.com/
Transcribe →Discussing Popular Education (w/ Ultra-Red)
Oct 601:42:18Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Alyson joins members of the Ultra-Red collective to discuss their recent trip to Central America where they learned first hand about popular education movements of the past and present. The discussion gets into the history of popular education, existing social movements in Central America today, and what we can learn from these movements in our organizing work. The journal of Ultra-Red can be found here: https://www.rabrab.net/titles/urvol1?utm_campaign=as-npc105112516 ---------------------------------------------------- Learn more about, follow, and support Rev Left and Red Menace here: https://revleftradio.com/
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