Just to keep you tickin' over until the next full recording, here are a few items we cut for time from previous pods. Enjoy the comrades as they defend the process of becoming radicalized & discuss the polarization of society that results from the capitalist economy's inevitable downturns.

Kev mentions the Virginia open-carry march of a few months ago, as well as Marx's dictum that the proletariat must not surrender their arms. Seb reveals an episode from the 1980's in which Bernie sided with big business against those protesting the use of US-manufactured weaponry in South America.

This little compilation has more tags than it has content...

Populist isn't a bad word // Collapse of Neoliberal consensus // Left & Right uniting to destroy the Centre // Armed working class // Crazy example of Commodity Fetishism

Music:

Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now

Flogging Molly - What's Left of the Flag

Josef Plavinski - Varshavianka

The comrades go all over the map this week, from Castlebar to Coronavirus, Nazis in Thuringen to Tennessee, Lesbos to Liz Warren.

Coded messages from Soros // the Berks of Castlebar // ..now over to the Home Affairs Correspondent, Mother // the LOW-low stakes of student politics // FASH WATCH: cases against Daesh / not letting old Nazi's lie // more Thuringen /

Break: The Irradiated Animals of Clear-Cut Farthing Wood

Fighting on Lesbos // plenty of room in Europe // racism against indigenous peoples is fascism // French firefighters getting Jokerfied // Covid-19 is a comrade // posting wars move to Facebook // tearing down posters are violence //

http://www.rabble.ie/2014/03/04/irelands-phelps-family-and-nuig/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/friedrich-karl-berger-nazi-concentration-camp.html

Music, The Knack - My Sharona

Some more chaff from our comrades that got separated from the wheat represented in the regular podcast. Kev points out that the ideal holder of power is the person who doesn't want it, before segueing into Bernie's 3 houses & 4 toasters. Not to be outdone, Seb tells the tragi-comic tale of the terribly-tattooed bridesmaid. Finally, the pair discuss atrocious handwriting & final notes...

Music:

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son

Felice Cascione - Fischia il Vento

Joan Baez - Joe Hill

Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound

A lot of hard laughs in this pod. Seb and Kev dig into the muck raking going on over on Gript.ie and the media's complicity in allowing them to take down female politicians. Kev gets out his deerstalker, pipe and cocaine to investigate the people behind the site. They go back to the deep well of the Irish Right's own words. Seb impresses with his infinite knowledge of, well, everything.

rallies and rubble club// right-to-not-work // r/aBoringDystopia // the Irradiated Animals of Farthing Wood // the Seed Vault // pharoh's atomic curse // ZARDOZ! //

Main topic the Iona Pyramid Scheme // muckraking for likes // not-so-liberal.ie // gript-gist // the neo-cons and trad-caths // genuinely held horrible repugnant beliefs // suppport for @hollyleahcairns 2013 hot takes // shadow of a tweet // Kev has brain poisoning // fascist ghoul post election post mortum // Barrett's franco fascism // dont call yourselves patriots, people will ask awkward questions // gig economy fascists // litigating nazis // nostalgia for the soviet welfare system // Cub-ernie Sanders // shoutouts

Shout out again to https://the-beacon.ie/ ✊

Article about the Liberal.ie copyright violation - Kev may not have been accurate in the description of this, but his gist

https://www.thejournal.ie/the-liberal-apology-3494523-Jul2017/

If you have a signed copy of "The National Way Forward" by Justin Barrett, please contact us [email protected]

Music, Sound of Zardozz - Penis is Evil, teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8mB_sLWbM.

The comrades chat so much that some stuff has to get left on the cutting room floor...and this IS that stuff! Seb is paid by Google to tell you to use their service, and Kev reveals what he tells people to do on Reddit. Our nattering nitwits go on to rave about the ability of authoritarian states to achieve rapid progress unhindered by considerations of human safety, before imagining a future in which Bernie Sanders & Michael D. Higgins cross paths. Also; have you ever seen Rhea Perlman and Margaret Atwood in the same room?

Music:

Inti Illimani - El Pueblo Unido

Wang Shuangyin - Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman

Peter Gabriel - Biko

To commemorate the anniversary of the 1848 publication of the seminal political work by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, LeftWord Books established the first annual Red Books Day. Not only a celebration of the text itself, the day is intended to take a stance against the rising neo-fascist menace around the world which has seen leftist authors, publications and publishers come under attack.

So, in solidarity with such embattled comrades, Seb did a livestream on the date (21st of February 2020)and later edited the audio of that broadcast for your enjoyment here.

Music:

Le Manifeste - Alexei Aigui

Just a few lil pieces of chat that didn't quite make it into the main podcast.

In the reel our comrades point out the unique economic advantages that China has in being able to ignore workers' rights & have centralized control of all production, Seb acknowledges the Third Worldist argument that workers in the developed world & workers in the developing world have drastically different circumstances, and Kev ridicules the 'Ouroborus' that was the Irish media's justification for giving reactionary voices equal attention to those of the progressive majority.

mash that fash // freeze peach // 'socialism with Chinese characteristics' // poorest proletarians // suicide nets on factories // relative poverty // failure to cover Repeal the 8th // the illusion of balance // death threats from love boaters // our paymaster George Soros

Music:

K'Naan - ABCs

Billy Bragg - Never Buy The Sun

The comrades go to the pub.

Totally unedited. It's Seb's birthday and the lads went to the pub.

FAR right incel attack in Germany // Bolivian polls // Bloomberg is dangerous as fuck // the Irish far right // our mate arrives and we order more drinks // gript grift

check out the Beacon's reporting on the Irish far rights post election media plan.

https://the-beacon.ie/2020/02/19/planning-document-argues-irish-far-right-has-an-image-problem-and-lays-out-a-nationwide-strategy-for-success/

Sorry were drunk. Enjoy

A teaser in which Seb describes The Tailor of Ulm & the moral of the story in excruciating detail, before Kev builds on this by pointing out that even the most successful capitalists always brag about their initial failures. The pair discuss the origins of Covid-19 and revel in the brilliance of Steven Soderbergh, then reminisce over the era of innocence that was the '90s. The 'End of History' & 'Pax Americana' seem a long time ago now...

Music:

Bella Ciao

Hannes Wader - Einheitsfrontlied

Chumbawamba - Farewell to the Crown

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth

WAR on the Media.

The comrades had a serious discussion around ever pervading influence of the media over politics, the rising global disatisfaction with democracy as it is currently understood (bourgois representative democracy). Then for a bit of levity Kev reads a piece about the recent success of Sinn Féin in Ireland by Brexit supporting and Irish ex-patriot historian, columnist and alleged crime writer Ruth Dudley Edwards. They wrap up by covering the crimes being carried out against the Wet'suwet'en people in Canada, how the state and media are being deployed in support of capital against these and other indigenous peoples in North America, who have already suffered and continue to suffer genocide against them. It's heavy but the comrades find room for some laughs.

Mano-y-mano // love for Bernie and hate for the MSM // the vacuum in geopolitics // Global Dissatisfaction with democracy, disconnect between media and the masses, self immolation as a form of protest // the base are belong to elites // how to detect media bias, cops love the WIRE, Marvel Movies have BAD MESSAGES !! // reading Ruth // Quoting tweets in a NEWSPAPER // the mouth of others // searching for substance // journalists swing right // the Wet'suwet'en solidarity // murdered and missing indigenous women // naming and shaming subsidaries of capital // Greens are not REVOLUTIONARY //

Link to the study on global disatisfaction with deomcracy

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uoc-gdw012720.php

Article about Comcast's donation to the RNC with links to @lhfang and his tweets

https://www.inquisitr.com/5886359/msnbc-comcast-rnc/

Zach Breslin's peice on the elites

https://medium.com/@zackbreslin/the-irish-ruling-class-who-are-they-what-do-they-want-how-do-they-get-233290bcfca7

The piece we read from RDE

https://www.ruthdudleyedwards.co.uk/2020/02/sinn-feins-rise-akin-to-that-of-nazis-in-1930s-and-is-a-threat-to-democracy-on-this-island/

Counter punch piece on whats happening in the Wet'suwet'en Territory

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/12/wall-street-invading-wetsuweten-territory/

Battle in Seattle https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0850253/

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