The Red Thread

Left Voice

The Red Thread is a podcast from Left Voice where we explore workers’ struggles, union organizing, socialist theory, social movements, imperialism, climate change, and the ongoing fight for socialism. We thread the needle from historical struggles of exploited and oppressed peoples to today's fight for socialism and liberation in short episodes every week.Support us on Patreon at https://patreon.com/leftvoice.Follow us on Instagram at @theredthreadpod

  1. 09/20/2025

    The Mamdani Moment: A Socialist Perspective

    With the NYC mayoral elections just two months away, we’re talking about one of the most important developments for the Left right now: Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic mayoral primary and his ongoing campaign to win the election in November. Mamdani’s mostly progressive platform speaks to the aspirations of working-class New Yorkers, and his mayoral primary victory reflects an important progressive shift in a context of right-wing attacks by the Trump administration, revealing broad discontent with an unaffordable city, anger at the Democratic Party establishment, a desire to fight the Far Right, pro-Palestine sentiment, and hunger for new political representation. His win was a rejection of the corrupt, pro-cop mayoralty of Eric Adams, the Zionist lobby, and the racist, multi-million-dollar campaign against him by Andrew Cuomo. But it’s definitely not without its contradictions and limits, and is functioning to rebuild the Democratic Party — the same capitalist party that’s responsible for building up ICE, funding the genocide in Gaza, and advancing the neoliberal austerity project that created the affordability crisis in the first place. We’ll talk about what the “Mamdani moment” means for the fight for socialism, the creeping limits of reformism, the dangers of the Democratic Party, and our ideas for the way forward as revolutionary socialists. Hosts: Emma and Melanie Producer: Luigi Morris Music: Griffin Brown Stay connected, and solidarity forever. Follow us on Instagram: @theredthreadpod Read more: leftvoice.org Support us at patreon.com/leftvoice

    20 min
  2. 08/26/2025

    Netanyahu’s Genocidal Escalation in Palestine

    In this episode, we discuss the dire situation in Gaza and urgent need to end this genocide. Israel is advancing with its recently approved plan to invade and “take over” Gaza City. At the same time, Palestinians in Gaza are starving and being attacked at aid sites by the IDF, and the UN has declared a famine. Official figures say over 60,000 people have been killed since Israel's onslaught began — but the real toll is likely tens of thousands higher than that. We must fight against the starvation, the genocide, the siege, and against Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine. Our fight is for full liberation of the Palestinian people, against the 76 years of dispossession, displacement, apartheid, occupation, and ethnic cleansing.  Workers and youth are pointing the way forward in this struggle through protests of thousands all over the world, a historic student movement, and port workers who have used their strategic position to block arms shipments to Israel. To end the genocide, all workers and unions must rise, join the protests and strikes for a free Palestine, and fight until we win. Read more: https://www.leftvoice.org/un-officially-declares-famine-as-israel-ivades-gaza-city/ https://www.leftvoice.org/trump-state-department-blocks-lifesaving-visas-for-gazas-wounded-children-after-far-right-smear/ Hosts: Emma and Melanie Producer: Luigi Morris Music: Griffin Brown Stay connected, and solidarity forever. Follow us on Instagram: @theredthreadpod Read more: leftvoice.org Support us at patreon.com/leftvoice

    12 min
  3. 05/01/2025

    The History of May Day: International Workers' Day!

    In this episode, we celebrate International Workers' Day by looking back at how it started: in Chicago, in 1886, where tens of thousands of workers were going on strike and taking to the streets. One of their main demands was for an eight-hour workday, which was also taken up by workers internationally — and it sent capitalists into a panic in May 1886, when it seemed like that struggle might turn into a full-on rebellion. We’ll talk about how this movement grew, and how it was crushed by capitalists and the government, who wanted to ensure their exploitive system would continue unabated. Still, the eight-hour workday demand was taken up internationally, and the workers from this moment in history will never be forgotten.  Today, the same exploitation that sparked the events of May 1886 is still as ruthless as ever. Many of us still work 10 or 12 hours a day, if not more. We've seen the U.S. go through wars, waves of class struggle, and mass movements against racism and police brutality, but capitalist exploitation and oppression continue. And therefore, so does the fight for socialism.  From Haymarket to Amazon warehouses. From Chicago to Gaza. From gig workers to teachers on strike—May Day reminds us that we have the power to win everything we're fighting for. Read or watch more: https://www.leftvoice.org/may-1-a-day-for-the-workers-of-the-world/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WViBBoDEAC0&t=76s&ab_channel=LeftVoice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=samhLAyTp0s&t=3s&ab_channel=LeftVoice Hosts: Killian and Melanie Producer: Luigi Morris Music: Griffin Brown Stay connected, and solidarity forever. Follow us on Instagram: @theredthreadpod Read more: leftvoice.org Support us at patreon.com/leftvoice

    12 min

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The Red Thread is a podcast from Left Voice where we explore workers’ struggles, union organizing, socialist theory, social movements, imperialism, climate change, and the ongoing fight for socialism. We thread the needle from historical struggles of exploited and oppressed peoples to today's fight for socialism and liberation in short episodes every week.Support us on Patreon at https://patreon.com/leftvoice.Follow us on Instagram at @theredthreadpod