In the second installment of my series on transgender athletes, I talk with veteran, MMA fighter, and poster extraordinaire, Alana McLaughlin aka Lady Feral. We discuss her activism, her MMA career, and her life as a trans woman in the USA.

“ Old longings nomadic leap,

Chafing at custom's chain;

Again from its brumal sleep

Wakens the ferine strain.”

- John Myers O’Hara

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This is my first full episode dedicated to the struggle of trans athletes. There will be more to come! Here I talk to friend and comrade Reese, who I know by her roller derby name, Stitch. She began her transition while already involved in the derby world, which in many ways supported her, and in some ways did not. Stitch also recently moved to Chicago from Austin to escape the open fascism reigning down on us from Texas leadership.

Links to organizations mentioned in this episode:

https://streetmedicsaustin.org/

https://www.nols.edu/en/

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Comrade Javier, who I met on TikTok, was born in Puerto Rico, and spent the decades from age 15-35 in and out of jail and being hassled by the police. In this interview, he shares how this interaction with the carceral system radicalized him, how the system is connected to the fight against colonialism, and offers some advice on dealing with the police and prisons. Follow Javier on TikTok @caribbean_warrior

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Since I’m a personal trainer for my day job, I thought I’d share some tips on goal setting for the new year. Just a short episode to try to help y’all set better and more achievable goals.

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I was lucky enough to be selected for the CPUSA Hello Comrade delegation to Ha Noi, Vietnam in the spring of 2024. In this final episode of the year, I read over my notes from meetings with various CPVietnam orgs and members of Party leadership. I learned about Ho Chi Minh Thought and the Vietnam socialist oriented market economy, and wanted to share some of that info with you all.

Articles mentioned:

Cooperative Farming in Vietnam: https://cpusa.org/party_voices/cooperative-farming-in-vietnam/

Xin Chào Dông Chí, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dragon Chicken: https://cpusa.org/party_voices/xin-chao-dong-chi-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-dragon-chicken/

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Batman Returns is a Christmas movie

ACAB includes Batman

Free Penguin

Free Catwoman

“We are both perceived as monsters, but somehow you’re a respected monster, but I am not. Yet.” - Penguin

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I plan to put out several episodes covering the different types and aspects of mutual aid work. In this one, I talk with two of my Red Help ATX comrades, identical twins Travis and Trenton, about our work with a homeless community in south Austin.

Link to Travis’s Substack article:

https://open.substack.com/pub/cpatx/p/lessons-from-mutual-aid-how-we-can?r=1ielsn&utm_medium=ios

Donate to Red Help ATX here:

paypal.me/redhelpatx

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For this third and final episode covering Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism, I bring back Comrade Pete for an exciting discussion on this important book.

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https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch07.htm

Comrade Pete is back to discuss chapters 5 &6 of Stalin’s book Foundations of Leninism. These are my favorite sections covering the Peasant Question and the National Question

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For this holiday episode, I talk with Sungmanitu bluebird, an Oglala Lakota organizer and researcher, and host the Marx Madness and Chunka Luta Podcasts. They help to dispel the myth of “tHe FiRsT tHaNkSgiViNg,” and we discuss the struggle of the people indigenous to North America from the 1600s through present day.

Chunka Luta network links:

https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYRoR_7fAoBQlZDgMlUFRSe8mhWN1sOec7bZnrlxpIOBF7XPPYvfHcAyZs_aem_x4oTAYYQ5bMifIAqgVygUw

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