Left Coast

This is it, the Big Book™ of Marxism: Capital Volume 1. Tiberius Gracchus, Outer Siberia and Empress "Rosa Luxemburg" Trixana tackle sections 1 thru 3 of chapter 1, covering the labor theory of value, commodities, and money. To join the discussion tweet at the show at twitter.com/leftpod with the hashtag #MarxHeadroom, or join the discord server. If you want to support our work and help us afford transcripts for the show go to patreon.com/leftcoastmedia and kick us a few bucks a month--anything you can afford is appreciated.

Comrades Tiberius and Sauce chat with Molly (twitter.com/socialistdogmom) about why she's sitting in on so many city council meetings, and how hyperlocal electoral politics is a tool in the socialist arsenal. Follow her, twitter.com/cvilledsa, and twitter.com/mikesigner1 for such threads as

https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/948342648343064578

https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/956574990488481792

https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/938099348470161408

and https://youtu.be/Kfr29BAedz8

Part 2 of Marx's Value, Price, and Profit wherein comrades Pope, Tiberius, and Sibby cover the back half of the text, covering how what Marx has taught so far means for the worker's struggle in his time and now. Follow this episode's hosts respectively at twitter.com/antifa_pope, twitter.com/chekainformant, and twitter.com/outersiberia and join the conversation with your feedback in the discord or with the hashtag #MarxHeadroom

This week comrades Sauce and Tiberius are very pleased to discuss the BDS movement with the ever lovely Kumars Salehi of Delete Your Account fame

The second of Tiberius's conversations with the Mendocino Voice comrades about why the left needs its own news organizations and how activists need to interact with reporters

Comrades Outer Siberia, Tiberius Gracchus, and Dan start digging into Marxism proper with Value, Price, and Profit. Find the text on the Marxist archive at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/ and find the hosts of this discussion on twitter at https://twitter.com/OuterSiberius, https://twitter.com/chekainformant, and https://twitter.com/anarchoposadist respectively. Join our discord server or hit up https://twitter.com/leftpod with #MarxHeadroom to ask questions or provide critique of our understanding of the work.

Comrade Sauce (twitter.com/communalsauce) speaks with the DSA Street Medic Collective's John, Eli, and Logan about the challenges and necessities of street medic training for radical movements. Help them out by funding the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest's training on https://www.gofundme.com/dsa-medics-california-regional-agm-training and https://www.gofundme.com/dsa-pacific-northwest-affinity-group-medic-training-portland

You can find DSA Medics (twitter.com/DSAMedics), John (twitter.com/parsonshanged), and Chicago Action Medical (twitter.com/ChiStreetMedics) on Twitter

The first of our book club series! This episode discusses Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark and is hosted by comrades Communal Sauce (twitter.com/communalsauce) Outer Siberia (twitter.com/OuterSiberia) and Rosa

Local comrades and reporters Kate Maxwell and Adrian Fernandez-Baumann from The Mendocino Voice sit down with Tiberius for part one of two episodes on local journalism and leftism. This week examines the news from an insider's perspective.

Follow their paper on https://twitter.com/TheMendoVoice and support their work at https://www.mendovoice.com/membership/

(the death toll from the fires was 42 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fires-20171018-story.html)

Comrade Tiberius rides solo to catch up with James and fellow worker Ruth from the Kansas City IWW to discuss anti-prison activism and their current campaign to get adequate feminine hygiene supplies for those caged by the state. (Tiberius' recording was corrupted by state agents, but they're confident the quality of the content makes up for the resulting poor audio quality)

To find out more and get involved:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/kansascity.iww/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gkciww

Web: https://kciww.org/

IWOC: incarceratedworkers.org

Email: [email protected]