In this episode, I speak with Sudip Bhattacharya, PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers about left political thought and organizing among BIPOC and the need for socialism as we collectively confront the ongoing harms of capitalism and neoliberalism. 
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Works/Issues Cited in the Podcast

Sudip Bhattavcharya - “Attacking Difference, Pursuing Unity: Building a Socialist Movement amidst a Dynamic Working Class” in From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank (various authors, Colin Jenkins, editor)
https://www.iskrabooks.org/hampton-reader

Steve Phillips
https://www.thenation.com/authors/steve-phillips/

Daron Acemoğlu
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/daron-acemoglu

Assata Shakur
http://www.assatashakur.org/ (archive of writings and interviews)

Claudia Jones
-Carole Boyce Davies - Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
https://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx
-Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean - Organize, Fight, Win:
Black Communist Women's Political Writing
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2881-organize-fight-win?srsltid=AfmBOorReXXKeF6V9ZfPtFvNO9ZlITZunNe7Bx5m4q5-CyOsjstuHuTR
-The Political Writings of Claudia Jones
https://1804books.com/products/a-fighting-dream-the-political-writings-of-claudia-jones?srsltid=AfmBOoodwNEnDwRcZk7gQC1oV-AoYrj_WeLs6rcFcZl46WNc2mF1Izsb

Efrén O. Pérez - Diversity’s Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo103673599.html

Janelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn - Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities
https://www.russellsage.org/publications/asian-american-political-participation

Sonia Song-Ha Lee - Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469629803/building-a-latino-civil-rights-movement/

Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth
https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-wretched-of-the-earth/The%20Wretched%20Of%20The%20Earth.pdf 

Schuyler Mitchell - “Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows the Progressive Promise of Ranked-Choice Voting”
https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdanis-victory-shows-the-progressive-promise-of-ranked-choice-voting/

Glen Ford - The Black Agenda
https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-black-agenda/ 

Mitchell Plitnick - ‘“Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts”
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

Mia Ives-Rublee and Kim Musheno - “The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare”
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-truth-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-cuts-to-medicaid-and-medicare/ 

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91. We Need Socialism - Interview w.Sudip Bhattacharya- Left POCket Project Podcast

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