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ABC With Danny and Jim
By Danny Evans & Jim YeomanHistory
ABC With Danny and Jim episodes
- 38. Everything for Everyone
In this episode we discuss M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s speculative fiction Everything
for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 (Common Notions Press, 2022).We both really enjoyed this slight departure from our usual reading choices for the podcast, which provoked and stimulated how we think about history, and the experience and nature of post-revolutionary society.
You can find interviews authors of this book here:
https://positionspolitics.org/an-interview-with-m-e-obrien/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lSfPYDDsyuvRNB3DgvcIx?si=1T076vlXTC6hVfOfTrq6mQ
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here:
https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete
um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4WThe podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is some of the cover art for Everything for Everyone.
1 hr 3 min - 37. Alexandra Paulin-Booth: 'Time and Radical Politics in France'
In this episode we are delighted to be joined by Dr Alexandra Paulin-Booth, to discuss her book Time and Radical Politics in France, published by Manchester
University Press in 2023. Alex’s work treats the conception of time as both a window and a key into the left and right in France, during the turbulent period between the Dreyfuss Affair and the First WorldWar.You can see Alex’s profile and a list of her publications here.
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your
postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here:
https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here:https://bit.ly/35ToW4WThe podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is the cover of an issue of La voix du peuple in 1905, which is used on the front cover of Alex’s book.
52 min - 36. Jessica Thorne: Anarchist Prisoners under Franco
In this episode we speak to our longtime friend and comrade Jessica Thorne about her work on anarchist prisoners under the Franco regime in Spain.
Jess has recently completed a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London on this subject, which is also discussed in an article recently published in European History Quarterly, available here.
See also Jess's brilliant article on football and radical politics in Franco's prisons, available via History Workshop here.
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is a photograph of Carabanchel prison in Madrid, which we discuss during the episode.56 min - 35. Ronald Grigor Suny
In this episode we were delighted to be joined by Ronald Grigor Suny, one of the most distinguished scholars of the Russian Revolution in the world.
Suny has written extensively on a huge range of topics, including nationalism within the Russian and Soviet empires, the Armenian genocide and, in 2020, a monumental biography of the young Joseph Stalin, which was the starting point of our conversation.
A fuller sense of Suny's vast historical work can be found here: https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/emeritus/rgsuny.html and here: https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/Ronald-Suny
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is the front cover of Suny's Stalin: Passage to Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2020).59 min - 34. Sho Konishi: 'Anarchist Modernity'
In this episode we discuss Sho Konishi's brilliant Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 2013).
This book has been on our radar for a long time, and it was a pleasure to spend some time discussing Konishi's framing of anarchism as an alternative vision of modernity, as exemplified in the exchanges between radical thinkers and activists in Japan and Russia from 1880 to 1920.
You can read an extended interview with Konishi here: asiaarttours.com/anarchist-modernity-dr-sho-konishi-of-oxford-on-japan-russia-and-anarchism-part-1/
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is a picture taken from the periodical Heimin Shimbun, the publication of the Nonwar Movement in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War, which included several leading anarchists in its editorial.53 min - 33. Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography’ (ABC Edition)
In this episode we discuss our first ever ABC Edition pamphlet: a translation of Víctor García's ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography’.
Danny has taken the lead on this project, and introduces us to García (the pen-name of Germinal Gracia), his relationship with Xena, and the experiences of both through the Spanish Civil War and exile in Venezuela.
The pamphlet is available at cost price of £2.00, plus and postage costs. Email [email protected] to discuss placing an order.
Big thanks to Footprint Workers Co-Op in Leeds for the printing of this lovely edition. Check them out at: footprinters.co.uk
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You can keep in touch with the podcast via email: [email protected], and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is a photograph of Germinal Gracia (Víctor García) and José Xena from their time in exile, c.1960. This photograph features in the pamphlet, and was generously supplied by José Xena's daughter Nerida Xena Puig.
41 min - 32. Means and Ends with Zoe Baker
After a few months off, ABC returns with a brilliant guest, Zoe Baker (@anarchopac) author of Means and Ends published with AK Press in 2023: https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html.
Zoe's book provides an engaging and accessible overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939.
Zoe is host of one of the most popular and respected YouTube channels on the left, which you can find here: tinyurl.com/anarcho-pac
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You can keep in touch with the podcast via email: [email protected], and Facebook, Twitter and Instragram, all @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is the cover art of Zoe's book.
51 min - 31. Conversation on 'Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain'
In this episode we discuss 'Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain,' a reprint of Jim's book published by AK Press in September 2022. This conversation is a natural follow up from Jim's appearance on the excellent podcast 'Coffee with Comrades,' which you can listen to here: https://coffeewithcomrades.com/episode-178-tierra-y-libertad-ft-jim-yeoman/
Listeners in the US can buy the paperback from AK Press here: https://www.akpress.org/print-culture.html. The book will be available in the UK, from your local radical bookseller, from Spring 2023.
Jim will be doing a few public events in the UK in early 2023, in Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield. Keep an eye on our Twitter page, @abcdannyandjim, where we will post details when they are confirmed. Listeners in other parts of the UK are very welcome to suggest other locations/events to our email, [email protected].
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You can keep in touch with the podcast via email: [email protected], and Facebook, Twitter and Instragram, all @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is a box full of copies of Jim's book, with cover art designed by Isidro Pergamino, who you can find on Instagram under Ave Cosmica Prints: instagram.com/ave_cosmica_prints/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
1 hr 18 min - Episode 30. 'Fractured,' with Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley
In this episode we are joined by Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley to discuss their new work 'Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics,' published with Pluto Press. You can order the book online here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346588/fractured/
A lively and fun conversation, covering the possibilities of universalist approaches, the value of using 'revolutionary time' as an analytical concept, and the paucity of arguments from both right and left which tell us to ignore the material realities of identity.
You can access the archives of Michael and Alex's previous work for The Occupied Times here: https://theoccupiedtimes.org/ and Base Publication here: http://www.basepublication.org/
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You can keep in touch with the podcast via email: [email protected], and Facebook, Twitter and Instragram, all @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
The image in this episode is a photograph of the The Combahee River Collective.
1 hr 3 min - 29. Interview with Sophie Turbutt and Josh Newmark
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We begin this episode with a statement read by Danny from Ryan Roberts, one of the Bristol Kill the Bill protesters, who has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. If you would like to learn more about this situation and how you can help, see the following accounts on Twitter:
Bristol Anarchist Red and Black Cross: @Bristol_ABC
Bristol Defendant Solidarity: @BristolDefenda1
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In this episode we speak with Sophie Turbutt and Josh Newmark, both of whom are undertaking PhDs at the University of Leeds. We begin by speaking about a conference that Sophie and Josh organised in the summer of 2022, titled 'Anarchism in the Iberian Peninsula Symposium,' which was attended by Danny. You can read reflections on this event from both our guests here: pastandpresent.org.uk/reflecting-on-the-anarchism-in-the-iberian-peninsula-pgr-ecr-symposium/
Our discussion then moves on to speak about recent articles that Sophie and Josh have published. Firstly, Josh's article on anarchist internationalism and solidarity during the Mexican Revolution, which you can read Open Access here: journal.wrocah.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/WRoCAH-journal-issue-6-spring-1.pdf
We then speak with Sophie about her article on the anarchist sexual revolution and gender politics, which she examines through the advice columns of the journal La Revista Blanca, available Open Access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/sexual-revolution-and-the-spanish-anarchist-press-bodies-birth-control-and-free-love-in-the-1930s-advice-columns-of-la-revista-blanca/D3A34E5C5157F4966BEE1A9ED08A3752
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You can keep in touch with the podcast via email: [email protected], and Facebook, Twitter and Instragram, all @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
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