Old Mole Variety Hour for July 21, 2025

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Arun Gupta on Lessons for Left Organizing

 

The authoritarianism of the Trump regime calls out for mass radical organizing, but with some exceptions, much of the left has not mounted a coherent response. Journalist Arun Gupta reflects on lessons from the last quarter century – from the Global Justice Movement to Occupy Wall Street, from the George Floyd protests to the Palestine Solidarity Movement, from the primary victory of Zohran Mamdani to immigrant communities’ militant resistance to ICE deportations.

In this rebroadcast from Against the Grain, Arun Gupta talks with Sasha Lilley about some of the insights in his article,  “The Contemporary History of the US Palestine Solidarity Movement” Socialist Register 2025 (subscriber only).

You can find more of Arun's work on his Substack, as well as in journals including  Yes! Magazine, Jacobin, and The Intercept.

Against the Grain is a program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Heard on KPFA, Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.

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