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Don't want it but don't have enough of it. It's not booty calls we're talking about this week but money. Specifically, how corporate money influences politics. We discuss the last 160 years of it, starting with the recent campaign to take employee rights away from thousands of workers in California. Still, however bad money is, Dan Harmon is worse...  

 

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LA Times: How Uber and Lyft persuaded California to vote their way 

 

No On Proposition 22 Official Website 

 

Information for fish 

 

UVW press release on suspension of Cetin Avsar 

 

UVW: Security guard seeks groundbreaking injunction to stop his sacking

In a long planned and delayed episode we discuss the future of the left in Labour, plus chat about what we can learn from the US election results.  

 

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Bernie Sanders stokes question for Texas Democrats: How would his nomination affect their down-ballot plans?  

 

Texas Democrats Thought 2020 Would Be a Banner Year. Instead, It Was a Catastrophe.  

 

Biden campaign doesn't consider Latinos 'part of their path to victory,' political operatives say  

 

AOC: Democrats' weakness with Latinos was foreseeable  

 

NEC and Treasurer Elections 2020 - Results - The Labour Party  

 

Comradio Episode 7 - Smooth Decriminal feat. Sarah Dorman

In 1953 George Fontenis wrote the Manifesto of Libertarian Communism. We discuss that not uncontroversial document and its influences. Plus: lockdown 2, abortion rights in Poland, and a song Chlöe can't get out of her head, it's all that she thinks about.  

 

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Manifesto of Libertarian Communism (1953) 

 

THE ORGANIZATIONAL PLATFORM OF THE LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISTS (1926)  

 

Wendy McElroy, 'The Schism Between Individualist and Communist Anarchism' (2000)  

 

Leon Trotsky, 'Communism and Syndicalism (1929)' 

 

Manifesto Of The Communist Party (1848) 

 

Biography of Emma Goldman 

 

Stefan Bielek, 'A Hell For Women'

There's nowhere you can hide because the system is always watching. There's nothing you can conceal because the system knows all. There's nobody you can trust because the system controls everyone. Join us as we descend — into dystopia.

 

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Mandala 

 

The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem

 

La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker  

 

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (Apologies for Pinker reference) 

 

'This is what Right-to-Work means'  

 

Blair era dystopian DWP adverts 

 

Mexico is yellow. The yellow filter in film 

 

The bicycle as political symbol: Italy 1855-1955 (Academic access only) 

 

National Clarion 1895 Cycling Club

A spectre is haunting podcasting...  Our unholy alliance investigates the political behind the frightful, fearful, and monstrous, while a zombie does its best to break into Matt's room.  It's our Halloween episode - with bonus spiritualism.  

 

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White Zombie (full film) 

 

I Walked With A Zombie (full film) 

 

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (full film) 

 

Beaumont M. (2010). Socialism and Occultism at the "Fin de Siècle"

We appraise Andy Burnham's Northern Republic, denounce The "Spy Cops" Bill, chat to Torr Robinson from Labour Campaign For Trans Rights, and celebrate MAS!, the pro-indigenous left party in Bolivia.  

 

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Northern Republic Now! 

 

Monty Python Prison Scene 

 

Leanne Wood #revolution tweet 

 

Record Scottish support for independence 

 

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Very recently, in a place not so far away, an intrepid podcast team sought to reveal the truth of the politics behind a beloved film franchise.  This is their first adventure into that territory.

 

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Umberto Eco - Ur Fascism 

 

Jason Stanley interview 

 

Leon Trotsky - Fascism: What It Is And How To Fight It

 

Lindsay Ellis - The Ideology of the First Order  

 

Lenin - What Is To Be Done?

Part two of our tour of myth and politics sees us resume our quest at the beginning of the 20th Century.  Join us as we attempt the impossible task of covering everything from psychoanalysis to structuralism, all the while attempting to stop the supremely powerful MacGuffin falling into the wrong hands.  

 

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Laius. Rape of the boy Chrissipus to birth of Oedipus. 

 

Etymology of "Oedipus" 

 

Ulysses 31 ep 01  

 

The Highwaymen (Nelson, Cash, Jennings, Kristofferson) perform Ghostriders In The Sky 

 

Contrapoints on Jordan Peterson 

 

PiP episode on Peter Jordansen 

 

Nathan J Robinson article on JP  

 

Link to Vice Games fundraiser, finished since recording

With the help of Laurence from RMT and Connor from CWU we start with thoughts on Kieth's "Conference" speech then discuss privatisation of Rail, Telecoms, Royal Mail, and the NHS. Lastly, we remember a Trade Union legend.  

Also, forget everything we said about essentialism in the previous episode: Matt invents an abomination.

 

Keir Starmer - Connected Keynote Speech 

 

Text of Keir Starmer Full Speech – Labour Connected 2020  

 

The UCU: This was avoidable.  

 

The CWU  

 

CWU Count Me In!  

 

RMT  

 

We Own It  

 

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Join us on our quest to solve ancient riddles, overcome dangerous obstacles, and save the Earth from certain doom. We mere mortals face down the gods as we discuss the politics of myth.  

 

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Plantagenet letter mentioning King Arthur 

 

The Cure - Friday I'm In Love 

 

Scene from Jan Svankmajer's Faust (1994) 

 

Robert Johnson - Crossroad Blues 

 

Queen Mab 

 

A modern literary take on the Abraham and Isaac myth 

 

Indiana Jones takes the leap of faith 

 

The Dionysian (Vs The Apollonian)