Life of the Party

In this week's episode your hosts continue the lively - sometimes fractious - debates around the politics and strategy of the Green Party. Jonas leads us off with his take on the now-passed Zionism is Racism motion - taking us back to anti-imperialist basics - before examining the Green's by-election loss in Holborn and St Pancras. With your hosts split on whether Zack's performance in the by-election was good or not, they end with a unanimous view on Zack's future prospects as Green's leader.

READINGS

Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh - Pubs for the People: The Fight for the Pint and the Nation

Barney Iley - Mass Politics Must Win

Greens for Palestine - Anti-Zionism is Not Just Principled, It's Pragmatic

THE LIFE OF THE PARTY CADRE

Noor, Liam Miller, Neil Rogall, Fraser Amos, Andrew Glassford, Skeleton Wizard, Said Karimi

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Shanice digs into the Green Party Conference, highlighting some of key motions being debated, and interrogating some of the political tensions at the heart of the Zionism is Racism motion. While Joe questions the Green party's current strategy: offering up some thoughts on how we might practically organise and engage locally to strengthen community relationships and build power from below.

READINGS

Sean Bean - Get Birding

Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah, and Robert Knox - Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine

Stuart Hall, Bill Schwarz - Familiar Stranger

THE LIFE OF THE PARTY CADRE

Noor, Liam Miller, Neil Rogall, Fraser Amos, Andrew Glassford, Skeleton Wizard

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In this week's episode, Joe offers us insights into Zack Polanski's burgeoning campaign for a seat at the parliamentary table. Meanwhile, Shanice dissects the dynamics within contemporary capitalism's information ecosystems. In the context of the gut-wrenching death of Jason Arday, your hosts ask what struggle and contestation looks like when information is organised within an increasingly powerful, and malign, attention economy. 

READINGS

WING - Worlds Apart: Women Under Immigration Law

DSA Program - Workers Deserve More!

Amelia Horgan - Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism

THE LIFE OF THE PARTY CADRE

Noor, Liam Miller, Neil Rogall, Fraser Amos

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Joe and Jonas reflect on their recent trip to France to take part in the annual festival of Jean-Luc Melenchon’s radical left party, La France Insoumise, while Shanice offers some reflections on the enduring challenge presented to socialist strategy by nationalism and the nation-state.

READINGS

Kate Fox - Watching the English

Satnam Virdee - Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider

Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys

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We are on a summer break so this week you are getting a special preview of our brand new spin-off show, After Hours.

In our very first episode of After Hours, Jonas, Joe and Shanice breakdown a recent report from the National Centre for Social Research, investigating what it says about the average Reform voter and what makes this emerging radical right coalition tick.

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Joe breaks down the Greater Manchester mayoral race and argues that poor candidate selection and even worse political strategy had a significant role to play in the Greens’ bad showing. While Jonas then offers us some thoughts on the contemporary challenges to reaching the Good Life, provoking a deeper conversation on how the internet and the attention economy are harming our collective bonds.

READINGS

John Trickett - The End of Social Democracy

⁠Christopher Nolan - The Odyssey

Jonas Patrick Marvin - The Breaking of the English Working Class

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In this week's episode, Jonas takes us through the latest wave of machinations within the Labour Party, arguing that Andy Burnham’s strategy is neither radical nor realistic. Afterwards, Joe asks some fundamental questions of eco socialist strategy, pondering to what extent we could mitigate the climate crisis and what vision of eco socialism is possible on a burning planet.

READINGS

C.L.R. James - The Black Jacobins

Erik Olin Wright - How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

China Miéville - Embassytown

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In this week's episode, Joe raises doubts about the Green Party's choice of candidate in the Manchester mayoralty - spurring wider questions about leadership on the left. After discussing the Green Party's proposals for internal democratic reform, your hosts zoom out to discuss politics' most significant wedge issue: immigration. Shanice opens by critiquing the left's go to arguments, proposing an alternative lens for viewing the critical yet divisive immigration debate.

READINGS

Joshua Virasami - A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist FuturesThe Productive State - A Framework for Manchesterism Margaret Kennedy - The Feast
Resonance FM - English Stitch

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Jonas runs through Burnham’s big win in Makerfield and what it might mean for the Labour Party and the country, while Joe gives a deep cut on progressive alliances, assessing their history, viability and whether the Greens should sign up.

Live show

London 3rd July - Get Your Tickets

Readings

All in: A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse

Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal

The Secret History Donna Tartt

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Shanice opens up the episode probing why the left’s response to the killing of Henry Nowak has been so lukewarm, whilst Joe gives us a deep dive into six months of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty, assessing what’s gone well and what challenges might arise for the young democratic socialist politician.

Live show:

London 3rd July - Get your tickets!

Readings

Patrick Radden Keefe - London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

H. V. Morton - In Search of England

Asad Haider - Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump

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