Comradio

This week we discuss left unity, have a fight about democracy, criticise the efforts to delegitimise the Black Lives Matter Movement and our socialists of the week, the striking Unison workers in Tower Hamlets. We are also introducing theme music to our episodes - enjoy!  

Without Precedent: Our East London Fight for Fair Terms

This week we're talking about the departure of RLB, the dangers of when we let the cottage hit the core, and of course, our socialist of the week.  

Cottagecore Tweet  

NOT THE BEES  

Cottagecore  

Wandervogel: How to get back to nature and embrace the wilderness like the Germans  

Labour GRT  

This week: Rashford, Remainiacs, The Labour Together Election Review, and our Socialist of The Week, the redoubtable Angela Davis.  

Why The Labour Party's Social Media Posts Suck  

Labour Together Election Review 2019 

‘This moment holds possibilities for change we have never before experienced in this country’ – activist and writer Angela Davis

In this week's Comradio we are asking WTF?! and doing a little light reading on the manager we've all been waiting to speak to, plus discussing the tireless campaigning of Grenfell United.  

Grenfell United  

Keir Starmer is the Labour Party in human form  

Spitting Image - The Chicken Song (Top Of The Pops 22nd May 1986)

This week we talk to Mike Jackson of LGSM fame about solidarity and what it means, give a few thoughts on our new general secretary, and celebrate our socialist of the week.

Black Panthers: Vanguard of The Revolution  

Fred Hampton: The Death of A Black Panther (1968)  

Eyes On The Prize - (Part 12) A Nation of Law 1968–1971  

Working Class History E27-29: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

LGSM on Twitter

This week we're joined by comrades from Black Rose, discussing what they're all about and what libertarian socialism means, Momentum NCG elections and which of our podcasters are running, and in our socialist(s) of the week, we mourn the murder of George Floyd, another black man dead by the hands of white police in the United States, and celebrate the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the ongoing work of Dr. Cornel West.  If you're able to donate to bail funds, legal defence, funeral costs, check the links below. 

Black Rose

UKBLM Fund

Ways You Can Help

Citations Needed - Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex  

Bail Funds/Legal Help by City  

United Friends & Family Campaign  

Black Out Tuesday Resources  

Practical ways to support BLM from the UK

This week we cover the plans to reopen schools on 1st June, the comings and goings of Cummings and covid, and the Hungarian parliament voting to end legal recognition of trans people.

http://en.hatter.hu/   

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/hungary/

In a meeting of minds between the soft and hard left, we talk to Will of The Social Review about the future of Labour rent policies, chat a bit about unions, and our socialist of the week.  

https://twitter.com/willuminare

https://www.thesocialreview.co.uk/

https://twitter.com/labourtenants

https://tinyurl.com/CancelTheRent

https://tinyurl.com/labourtenants

A second guest in as many weeks, Riley Quinn from Trashfuture, and we're here to discuss how we're all liberals, why we hate Riley for calling us liberals, and the way forward for the left. 

https://twitter.com/raaleh 

https://twitter.com/trashfuturepod 

https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture 

This week we welcome our first ever guest onto the show, Sarah Dorman, here to talk us through the politics of sex work, including decrim, the perils of the Nordic (or Swedish) model, and listening to the workers and not our overly paternalistic impulses.

https://twitter.com/SarahxDorman 

https://decrimnow.org.uk/ 

https://www.swarmcollective.org/donate 

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3039-revolting-prostitutes