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Vincent Bevins on Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement

On this episode of The Nation Podcast, Vincent Bevins joins D.D. Guttenplan to talk about the Marxist organization that emerged from the Bolsonaro regime stronger than ever.

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Vincent Bevins on The Brazilian Marxists Occupying Land and Taking on Rural Elites | The Nation Podcast
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On this episode of The Nation Podcast, Vincent Bevins joins D.D. Guttenplan to talk about his reporting on the MST.

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On this episode of The Nation Podcast, Vincent Bevins an D.D. Guttenplan discuss the May issue’s cover story, “This Land Is Our Land.”

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Vincent Bevins on The Brazilian Marxists Occupying Land and Taking on Rural Elites | The Nation Podcast
byThe Nation Magazine

On this episode of The Nation Podcast, Vincent Bevins joins D.D. Guttenplan to talk about his reporting on the MST.

Read Vincent's story here.

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D.D. Guttenplan

D.D. Guttenplan is a special correspondent for The Nation and the former host of The Nation Podcast. He served as editor of the magazine from 2019 to 2025 and, prior to that, as an editor at large and London correspondent. His books include American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, The Nation: A Biography, and The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority.

Vincent Bevins

Vincent Bevins is the author of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution and The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World.

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