Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
[Unfortunately, today we had a whole series of technical difficulties which meant that we were not able to stream on our dedicated Against the Stream YouTube page. For the same reasons we will not be able to post the podcast on Spotify, Apple and other services either before tomorrow morning UK time. Please bear with us as we get this podcast up and running week by week. We are working hard to catch up with the technical aspects of running a professional weekly podcast. I promise you that we'll get there eventually! - Hamid]
This week, the Middle East has once again dominated the news, with the ICC issuing an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as the announcement of a supposedly ‘lasting’ ceasefire in Lebanon. In Europe, meanwhile, explosive events are being prepared in France, as the tottering National Assembly is set to face off against a rising tide of class struggle.
Everywhere, the response of the capitalist press to these events has been hysterical and hypocritical. For that reason, in this episode of Against the Stream, Hamid Alizadeh and Jorge Martín – from the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International – analyse the stormy events of the week and draw out the key processes that the capitalist media try to obscure.
[Unfortunately, today we had a whole series of technical difficulties which meant that we were not able to stream on our dedicated Against the Stream YouTube page. For the same reasons we will not be able to post the podcast on Spotify, Apple and other services either before tomorrow morning UK time. Please bear with us as we get this podcast up and running week by week. We are working hard to catch up with the technical aspects of running a professional weekly podcast. I promise you that we'll get there eventually! - Hamid]
This week, the Middle East has once again dominated the news, with the ICC issuing an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as the announcement of a supposedly ‘lasting’ ceasefire in Lebanon. In Europe, meanwhile, explosive events are being prepared in France, as the tottering National Assembly is set to face off against a rising tide of class struggle.
Everywhere, the response of the capitalist press to these events has been hysterical and hypocritical. For that reason, in this episode of Against the Stream, Hamid Alizadeh and Jorge Martín – from the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International – analyse the stormy events of the week and draw out the key processes that the capitalist media try to obscure.
