Weekends: May Day w/ Richard Wolff and Meagan Day
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy.
May 3, 2021
2 hr 6 min
780 of 1,867
May 3, 2021
Weekends: May Day w/ Richard Wolff and Meagan Day
0:00 / 2:06:51
Excerpt playback isn’t available for this episode — use the full-episode link.
Search the Record
Moment search isn’t open for this episode yet
When it opens, you’ll be able to type any phrase and jump straight to the second it was said.
Jacobin Episodes Around May 3, 2021
Episode 780 of 1,867 — walk the feed in the order it was published.
Weekends: May Day w/ Richard Wolff and Meagan Day
Summary
<p>Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from May 1, 2021.<br /><span dir="auto"></span><span dir="auto"></span><span dir="auto"></span></p>
<p><span dir="auto">Professor Richard Wolff joins us to talk about the historic significance of May Day and rebuilding the trade union movement. Meagan Day stops by to discuss how the Nazis tried to appropriate May Day and how the socialist vision won out. Finally, we discuss Kamala Harris's "woke imperialist" statements to Guatemala's president and what it says about today's Democratic establishment.<span dir="auto"></span></span></p>
<p><span dir="auto"><span dir="auto">*** Get a digital subscription to Jacobin today for just $1. Print subscriptions are only $10 today, too. Just follow this link: </span><a href="https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=MAYDAY2021" rel="nofollow"><span dir="auto">https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=MAYDAY2021</span></a><span dir="auto"> ***</span></span></p>
<p>Join the Verso book club: <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub" rel="nofollow">https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub</a></p>
<p>Music provided by Zonkey: <a href="https://linktr.ee/zonkey" rel="nofollow">https://linktr.ee/zonkey</a></p>
<p>Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag</a></p>
<p><span dir="auto"><span dir="auto"></span></span></p>
Episode details and artwork are published by the show’s own feed. Sentinel plays short cited excerpts and links every episode back to its publisher.