Against the Stream
Hosted by Hamid Alizadeh and Victor Murray and Jorge Martín · RCI - www.marxist.com
4.8from 697 ratings
- 76
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 697
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Against the Stream
In Against the Stream, our weekly current affairs podcast, members of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International sit down to discuss the main events shaping global affairs. In an increasingly turbulent world situation, these discussions look behind the headlines of the mainstream press and the statements of politicians, to bring out the real processes and interests at play.
- Publisher
- RCI - www.marxist.com
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Oct 2024
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 76 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Spain and France: Another May '68?
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The World Economy Faces Perfect Storm
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Deepening Crisis of World Capitalism
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Spain and France: Another May '68?
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That is their function. And the point that I want to draw out of that is, I think, something that people are recognizing even more, is that this is inherent to the logic of profit and capital. So with an event like Marie Carmen's eviction and what happened to her, it's so it comes across as exceptional to people exceptional cruelty but at the same time it's not exceptional at all it's a window into how the system works and how it has to work that people are so revolved by this you look at these events and you think you have an 87 year old woman who's confined to a wheelchair she's lived there for 70 years in what rational sane half decent society is she being kicked out and she's been kicked out after four attempts So you've got this long, drawn-out legal battle. […]
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- Josh Holroyd
- Niklas Albin Svensson
- Adam Booth
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- YouTube views
- 2,102,697
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 36 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 661 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100
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- Quality
- 67
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 51
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Who hosts Against the Stream?
Hamid Alizadeh and Victor Murray and Jorge Martín host the show. Published by RCI - www.marxist.com.
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