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Aaron summarizes an article by Michael Roberts from the blog "The Next Recession" taking stock of the economic positions of Ukraine and Russia as the "special military operation" completes its 3rd year this week. Special guest Jeffery Booth from the Independent Socialist Group adds to our commentary as well. You can find Michael Roberts writings he…

Here we discuss what building a genuine alternative to the Democrat Party might look like and what it takes to get there with recurring guest Jeffrey Booth and his article "Getting Past Sanders and Towards a Workers Party". https://independentsocialistgroup.org/2025/02/20/getting-past-sanders-and-towards-a-workers-party/…

Lenin wrote: "the Social Democrat’s ideal should not be the trade union secretary, but the tribune of the people, who is able to react to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression, no matter where it appears, no matter what stratum or class of the people it affects". This means standing up for the most oppressed sections of the proletariat rega…

We get into the insane and stupid decisions of the Trump White house from the last few weeks and the response of the Left in gutting USAID, peace talks with Ukraine and Russia, relocating Palestinians, and the like. https://www.leftvoice.org/ceasefire-on-the-brink-trump-and-netanyahu-push-for-renewed-war-in-gaza/ https://marxist.com/usaid-imperiali…

Hope everyone is doing ok after these insane weeks. Before we get back to our regularly scheduled screaming we need to finish our examination of the high profile resignations at the ACP. If you are frustrated by capitalism this is the last organisation you should be joining.

This ended up being a long goddamn episode so we split it into two parts. The first part covers the helicopter crash into the jet liner along the Potomac river and then we get into the first of multiple resignations from the Executive board over at the so called American Communist Party. These people are deeply unserious clowns and its honestly min…

Hey folks it's Aaron, Ben and Joe coming at you with a great episode about Elon Musk, Trump, and Fascism. Is America a fascist country? We dive into Marxist theory and a few articles from Left Voice and Firebrand to help us out because it determines our revolutionary strategy. Articles cited: https://firebrand.red/2024/10/everything-you-hate-isnt-f…

2025 opens in true capitalist fashion with horrific mass fires in Los Angeles in the Palisades, a liberal Prime Minister resigns, and the Tik Tok ban forcing millions of Americans to flee to Red Book where they interact with actual Chinese citizens dispelling many misconceptions the working class of both countries had about each other. Closing song…

The Canadian postal worker strike was busted, the NALC fights on for a VOTE NO campaign, the Amazon workers strike, and 500 Starbucks Stores walk off the job. What a week its been for class struggle and what a way to end 2024! We end off with a discussion on the class nature of Starbucks baristas. Are they proletarian heroes or petty bourgeois para…

Assad is an anti-communist murderous horrendous dictator and he has been overthrown by US backed Al-Qaeda and ISIS forces. There is nothing to celebrate. There are no progressive rebel forces in this situation, and things will go from bad to worse in Syria. Everywhere the US sticks its greedy claws things always get worse, to keep the Arab world di…

Welcome to newcomer Ben as we cover some international news going on in the last couple of weeks as the president of South Korea institutes marshall law, attempts a coup and is resisted by the working class, followed by Assad's imminent deposition and ousting in Syria followed by Ukraine's inevitable surrender as it remains to be seen if Ukraine wi…

Revolutionary optimism fills this episode as Aaron visits the picket line of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, striking for better pay, benefits and pension as their comrades in the US NALC fight to vote NO on a garbage deal on their wages. Solidarity knows no international boundaries as the CUPW workers send their greetings to their brothers, …

No matter who won this week, Democrat victories and losses are not our losses. The boys take some time to reflect on what the re-election of Donald Trump means and a further reminder of the task of socialists is going forward. If anything this election serves as a confirmation the Democrats are enemies of the working class and we can not rely on th…

Last episode before the end of democracy! We look at the Young Turks definition of fascism, AOC's comments regarding resistance to fascism, just the usual Dem crap. Alternatively we get into why conservative humor is not only not funny but just generally bad, and we take a blast from the past with a classic Haz clip where he got tricked into a stre…

It's that time folks! Every four years we are told to elect Democrats to prevent GOP from winning, and its the most important election of our lives. The US election is days away and we wanted to explore the options given to us as socialists. Will voting Democrats make it easier to organize the working class and radical politics? What about a 3rd pa…

Hey folks. This week we discuss the incredible incompetent response by the federal government in the wake of Hurricane Helene which killed hundreds of Americans and displaced thousands with hundreds more still missing a week later making it the second deadliest in recent memory after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Cops guarding closed and fully stocked…

I hope you are well, friends! It's been another week of decades worth of news as Israel bombards Lebanon as we speak, murdering hundreds of civilians, further escalating a potential regional war drawing the US directly into conflict with Israel's neighbours while the operation in Gaza is almost a year old and not really going well. The world is ble…

RIP James Earl Jones. We were a bit pressed for time when we recorded this one, hope you like it! We get into the Marxist approach to mass immigration, drawing upon what Marx wrote about the Irish and English proletariat and what our task as revolutionaries is. In other news the Teamsters endorse no candidate for president! We read some liberal mel…

If you caught the debate between Kamala and Trump earlier this week this should already be obvious, that as socialists, Marxists, communists we do not support neither the Republican Party nor the Democrat party, each with their violently reactionary or inaction toward key issues that affect the working class. Both are puppets for imperialism, war, …

Conditions are grim in Gaza as doctors, physicians, nurses and aid workers describe the scene that is hundreds of times worse than what we see on alternative media like X and TikTok. The death toll at this point is in the hundreds of thousands with no apparent help coming nor the bombing to be let up with the looming US election of Harris, who vows…

Israel invades the West Bank, JD Vance gets boo'd by firefighters, and the American Communist Party keep doing incredible things like posting wonderful takes and then deleting them before we have a chance to dunk on them.

The boys are back together again to discuss the race riots in the UK, Venezuela, Israel, Elon Musk and Trump. It's a packed episode folks, glad we got this one out!

Apologies folks, some technical glitches with Audacity and scheduling conflicts delayed the release of this episode in which we go over the current state of the Venezuela election, our first impressions of Tim Walz. Kamala Harris girlbosses her way around. Rathbone releases another banger. Right wingers believe in magic. All this and more on this e…

On the program today we have on three former members of the US military who each found their way to Marxism. Matthew you already know as a regular but we also hosted Tyler and Ben of the Denver Communists to discuss their experience in joining and serving in the military as pawns of the imperialist war machine and coming out of it as radicalized Ma…

Chris shares his thoughts on his visit to Venezuela back in the day in which he witnessed first hand the incredible potential of worker's control of the means of production and the current election contest of Maduro against a Trump clone. Chavez instituted an incredible amount of reforms for the working class and laid a foundation for the Bolivaria…

You think you're a coconut? Or something like that I don't fucking know any more. We discuss the ongoing endless american bourgeois election cycle, some hot gossip surrounding it, and ultimately why these elections are essentially a waste of time and deeply unserious. There is still a genocide happening folks! Solidarity with those on the ground wh…

The boys are back in town after a hiatus of holidays with families and loved ones. I hope everyone enjoyed their 4th of July in which you eat a bald eagle or whatever you Americans do. The news is as dumb as ever as we take a dive into Biden's post-debate interviews and clean up after the disastrous performance at the debate. The Labour Party in th…

We catch up with our good MAGA communist friends to see what they're up to, where one of them likes a Nazi Fancam on Twitter, Alex Jones has to liquidate InfoWars to pay off his settlement with the Sandy Hook families, and the launch of the Freedom Institute for A Free American Freedom led by a coalition of Infrared, Midwestern Marx and Jackson Hin…

Tonight's episode was nearly cancelled due to allergies but thankfully Chris, Joe and Matt stepped up and banged out a solid episode with my congested ass occasionally weighing in. No Doug this week as he is focusing on some articles and putting the finishing touches on his new book coming this summer! On the program we discuss American democracy, …

Apologies comrades, we recorded this just after May 1st of this year, and due to a number of family issues, world events that demanded our participation in the streets, and technical issues, I finally found time to salvage and fix this episode. In this episode we have a conversation with some comrades over at Independent Socialist Group. We go over…

It's the Haz episode! We go over some classic clips but more importantly we take a dive into the theory behind MAGA communism as it pertains to the working class, Trumpism, as well as its relationship to previously similar movements like Strasserism, Larouchism, etc.... where these mass movements of people with socialist aesthetics become anti-comm…

Support the podcast on Patreon! $5 goes a long way for us. https://www.patreon.com/theleftop/membership Haz and Hinkle kicked off campus and whine about it. Fetterman and the NYPD are liars. Chris and Aaron back with a news episode, discussing May Day, Marx's birthday, and Soviet Victory day, and connecting the workers movement with the student enc…

The lads open with another bizarre conversation between recurring characters Alex Jones and Jackson Hinkle analyzing the Trotskyist movement in America which led to us reading out an argument between Noah from Midwestern Marx and some actual Trotskyist comrades in the replies. We then talk seriously about the ongoing encampments popping up on campu…

Initially we wanted to talk about the DSA after a few short discussions on a video that came across our desk as well as a shitty Atlantic article that came out last year about how it's best to just ignore the news, but we ran too long and will discuss the DSA another time. Rathbone is a political tiktok influencer who I think has done some really g…

Just Aaron and Chris this week discussing some of the news that's been circulating, some major stuff and some stuff you might not have heard about. Aaron opens the episode gushing about Carl Sagan, one of many figures and influences that led him away from liberalism and toward an internationalist perspective of the world. We then read a letter from…

Aaron, Chris, Matt, Joe and Doug coming at you once again taking a break from our patsoc nonsense to take a look at the alternative to Trump's movement. If we are so vehemently against Trump and the MAGA communist movement, we must be Democrats, right? In this episode we take a short tally of just where the Democrats have fallen short for working p…

This week we take a deep dive into one of the most popular Marxist Leninists MAGA communists in the media, Jackson Hinkle. With over 2 million followers on Twitter, he's had the ear of Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and many other prominent media figures. Where did he come from and why is he special? The long and short of it, is everything h…

Hello comrades! This is our first episode of the Left Opposition where we take on the capitalist news of the week, the current goings on around the world, discuss current Marxist theory and books we're reading, and critique certain segments of the Marxist current gaining steam in the American zeitgeist: the patriotic socialists or so called "MAGA" …

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