For today’s pledge drive episode, Allen is joined in the studio by Armando Ibarra, co-author of The Latino Question. They look at labor migration and the role of working-class Mexicans in U.S. history, the ideology and practice of empire, the significance of political economy to Latino politics, and how Latino politics could breathe new life into leftist thought and organizing in our current moment.

Armando Ibarra is director of the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies program and associate professor in the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is co-author, with Alfredo Carlos and Rodolfo D. Torres, of The Latino Question: Politics, Labouring Classes and the Next Left (Pluto Press, 2018).