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Episode 117 - James Schneider: The American empire at home and abroad

Episode 117 - James Schneider: The American empire at home and abroad

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James Schneider co-founded Momentum, the grassroots left-wing organisation that helped Jeremy Corbyn become leader of the Labour Party, and he's our guest this episode.

James currently heads up Communications for Progressive International, a group that unites and mobilises trade unions, leftist parties, peasant movements and groups like Code Pink, the Democratic Socialists of America and South Africa's shack dwellers movement. He holds a degree in Theology, too, and he talked to Jonty Langley for Shibboleth magazine Issue 7 and Beer Christianity.

It's an excellent episode if you're interested in the US anti-ICE movement, the history of US aggression around the world, and what part religion is playing in it all.

James is a brilliant thinker, the author of Our Bloc: How We Win, and has even played Chess at an international level -- so you're gonna want to hear what he has to say.

If you want to read an edited version of the interview, as well as more pieces about what's happening in and because of the US, check out Issue 7 of Shibboleth magazine.
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James Schneider is always so good debating right wingers on TV. he's really great here too as he is interviewed about the United States and how its history is one of imperial violence, rather than the narrative that Trump "is not who we are". He talks about Christian nationalism, the boomerang effect bringing American military violence to American streets, and a whole bunch of history. It's very good stuff.

Trump is just a symptom

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