On this episode, host Charlie Demers is joined by Geoff Mann, author of 'In The Long Run We Are All Dead' and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University, to discuss the story of an East German family whose life reflects the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. This is a conversation on Tariq Ali’s 1998 novel ‘Fear of Mirrors’.
Editing and production: André Goulet. Extro Music: “Joe Hill,” by Paul Robeson.
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