This episode is in honour of Azul Rojas Marin and the struggle for LGBTQ rights around the world.

Clara Sandoval is Professor of Human Rights Law at the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, and co-director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network at Essex. Clara is co-authored of the book Doctrine, Practice, and Advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights System (OUP, 2019).

Chris Esdaile is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS. Previously, he worked at Leigh Day, Solicitors, using legal action in England to hold large UK companies to account for harming people in other countries, and latterly working on some of the claims resulting from alleged mistreatment by British forces during the Iraq conflict. Prior to that he had worked on human rights issues in South Africa, Chile and in the UK. A UK-qualified solicitor, Chris has an LLM in International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary, University of London.

Learn more about the case of Azul: https://redress.org/casework/azul-rojas-marin-formerly-luis-alberto-rojas-marin/

Learn more about the Essex Human Rights Centre: https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/human-rights

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nocutstoessexgtas

Open Letter: https://sites.google.com/view/nocutstoessexgtas/petitions/open-letter-to-the-vc?authuser=0

Petition: https://sites.google.com/view/nocutstoessexgtas/petitions/no-to-gta-and-gla-cuts-at-essex?authuser=0

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/18400770.petition-launched-try-save-jobs-essex-university-doctoral-students/?ref=twtrec&fbclid=IwAR3CHEW3u2sHReQpWyR68EMVtDyPgyXx-u1d5b6wJDpk3kt-MRFCLFsyOsU

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/april/push-this-button-with-your-face

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/04/coronavirus-exposes-class-conflict-in-britains-universities

Dr Phoebe V Moore’s research looks at the impact of technology on work from a critical perspective. Currently, Moore is leading a large European Parliament project on workplace surveillance, data protection and privacy, where she looks at workplace monitoring and tracking practices in the context of the GPDR. Moore is writing her next book, called The Smart Worker: Symptoms and Structure of Artificial Intelligence, where she argues that the development of artificial intelligence augmented tools and applications is occurring via workers’ affective labour. She has edited a Special Issue called Machines & Measure, will soon be published in Capital & Class and her last book, The Quantified Self in Precarity, Work, Technology and What Counts looks at wearable tracking and algorithmic decision- making as a set of management techniques. Moore regularly features on prominent news channels including the BBC’s recent programme entitled ‘Is your Boss Watching You? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csy9v4)

 

Website: https://phoebevmoore.wordpress.com/about/

Doug Enaa Greene is an independent Marxist historian living in the greater Boston area. He is the author of Communist Insurgent: Blanqui's Politics of Revolution available from Haymarket Books on the 19th century revolutionary Louis-Auguste Blanqui and a forthcoming biography of the democratic socialist Michael Harrington. A prolific author, Doug's work has been published in many places such as Socialism and Democracy, LINKS The International Journal of Socialist Renewal, and Counterpunch. His writings can also be found at his blog The Blanquist.

Link to "Communist Insurgent: Blanqui's Politics of Revolution": https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/697-communist-insurgent

Link to the blog "the Blanquist": https://blanquist.blogspot.com/

Charlene Carruthers is a political strategist, writer and leading community organizer in today’s movement for Black liberation. She is the founder of the Chicago Center for Leadership and Transformation and author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer  and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, available in English and Spanish languages. She has led grassroots and digital strategy  campaigns for national organizations including the Center for Community Change, the Women's Media Center, ColorOfChange.org and National People's  Action, as well as being a member of a historic delegation of young activists in Palestine in 2015 to build solidarity between Black and  Palestinian liberation movements. Her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times, the  Washington Post, Chicago Reader, The Nation, Ebony and Essence Magazines.  She has appeared on CNN, Democracy Now!, BBC and MSNBC. Charlene has also written for theRoot.com, CRISIS Magazine, Teen Vogue, Truthout, Colorlines  and the Boston Review. She is recognized as one of the top 10 most influential African Americans by The Root 100, one of Ebony Magazine's "Woke 100," an Emerging Power Player in Chicago Magazine and is the 2017 recipient of the YWCA's Dr. Dorothy I. Height Award.

Website: https://www.charlenecarruthers.com/

Councillor Matthew Brown is Leader of Preston City Council in the north of England, where he has been widely credited as the driving force behind the ‘Preston model’, an economic strategy at the city and county level that presents a comprehensive, interlinked approach to community wealth building as a practical and transformative alternative to austerity and disinvestment. First elected to represent the Tulketh ward in 2002, Councillor Matthew Brown subsequently took on portfolios that included community engagement and inclusion, social justice and policy initiatives, leading to his election in 2018 as Council Leader, and to a position as an advisor to the Labour Party’s Community Wealth Building Unit.  Matthew also works as Senior Fellow for the promotion of Community Wealth Building in the U.K. with The Democracy Collaborative.”

We welcome back podcast comrade and friend Dr. Keir Milburn. In this episode, we focus on the effect that this current pandemic will have on politics in the long term and in forging radical new forms of inter-generational cooperation and solidarity. The revolution is not only possible, it is for all ages!

Trebor Scholz is a scholar-activist and professor at The New School in New York City. His book Uber-Worked and Underpaid. How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy introduces the concept of "platform cooperativism" as a way of joining the worker co-op model with the digital economy. His edited volumes include Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory, and Ours to Hack and to Own: Platform Cooperativism. A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (listed by Wired Magazine as one of the Top Tech Books of 2017). He is the founding director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School. Scholz frequently presents on the future of work to media scholars, lawyers, activists, computational designers, union leaders, and policymakers worldwide. His articles and ideas have appeared in The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Le Monde, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. To learn more, visit http://platform.coop or email [email protected]

Common Knowledge is a not-for-profit worker cooperative building digital tools for grassroots activists. Their aim is to empower people to directly resist all forms of oppression, form more resilient and autonomous communities, and organise themselves at ever larger scales. Alex Worrad-Andrews is a member and software engineer.

Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. His most recent publications include the translation of Maurizio Lazzarato's Experimental Politics and the book Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism and Twenty-First-Century Socialism (Polity 2020). Right now he is a Visiting Professor in the Humanities at at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Rhode Island, until May.

He writes regularly for the British press (including the Guardian, the New Statesman, open Democracy and Red Pepper).