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Behind the News: Forgotten Albania w/ Lea Ypi
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:53:01
Publish Date: 2025-11-10 05:00:00
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Gabriel Hetland, author of a [recent article](https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-chavez-torres-municipal-democracy-socialism) for Jacobin, looks to Venezuela for a model of municipal socialism. Lea Ypi, author of [Indignity](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374614096/indignity/), looks into her grandmother’s story and unfolds a rich history of Albania and its environment.

Read “Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism” here: [https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-chavez-torres-municipal-democracy-socialism](https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-chavez-torres-municipal-democracy-socialism)

[Behind the News](https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html), hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
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