By Stewart McGill
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.
The Venezuelan working class and the Communist Party (PCV) are being attacked by the ruling Socialist Party.
In this podcast, Stewart McGill talks to Paul Dobson, a member of the Central Committee of the PCV. Paul describes starkly and succinctly the nature of the attacks, and asks people to spend some time trying to understand the situation. He also talks about the splits in the Socialist Party (PSUV) and how the crisis could lead to a right-wing victory in the presidential elections later in 2024.
The received perception is that Venezuela has a left-wing government: listen, think again, and always seek understanding beyond your immediate perception.
Some more information to help with that:
Class Struggle Sharpens as Minimum Wage Dismantled
Anti-Communist Attack During President Maduro’s Annual Message to the National Assembly
PSUV Prepares Assault on PCV’s Lawmaker in National Assembly
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In this cast I talk to Stiofán Ó Nualláin and Seán Byers from Trademark Belfast about the prospects for the 32 counties of Ireland over the forthcoming years/ decades on a burning planet.
See more about Trademark here:
https://trademarkbelfast.com/
and here for their excellent podcasts:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/trademark-belfast
and this is Seán's book, check it out:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Se%C3%A1n-Murray-Marxist-Leninist-Socialist-Republican/dp/0716532972
The first of our new Spartacus League podcasts. This features Roger Mackenzie, the international editor of the Morning Star, and Aston Villa fan.
The podcast was recorded just after the first reports of the explosion at al-Ahli Arab hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, so we talked about that and the situation in Gaza more than we originally intended; but it all fitted in with the themes and the intent of the podcast.
Some Links to the people and books that we referred to in the podcast:
Walter Rodney:
https://www.walterrodneyfoundation.org/about-walter-rodney
Saklatvala:
https://phm.org.uk/blogposts/shapurji-saklatvala-an-anti-colonialist-in-the-heart-of-empire/
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/node/1830
Priyamvada Gopal:
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/207-insurgent-empire
Hammer and Hoe:
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469625485/hammer-and-hoe/
The Cry was Unity:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tv8sr
Aimé Césaire:
https://afroribooks.co.uk/products/discourse-on-colonialism-by-aime-cesaire
https://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/153945859-Aime-Cesaire-Letter-to-Maurice-Thorez-1956.pdf
Marx at the Margins:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo22776846.html
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A special episode in which Communist Party of Britain General Secretary Rob Griffiths and Convenor of the party’s Political Economy Commission Stewart McGill discuss the unfolding crisis in Ukraine: how we got here and how we can work for peace. This is the comprehensive analysis based on current and historical fact that the supine mainstream media will not provide and is essential listening for those wishing to enhance their understanding of this complex situation.
Further Reading:
https://sceptical.scot/2022/01/a-crisis-made-in-the-usa-why-russia-will-likely-invade-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR0IptagsZIFgQcIMJ0bH1gfgTIeRyzgvdPMpXhl6AIX7n2DqyspvBY2iO0
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thenation.com/article/archive/four-years-of-ukraine-and-the-myths-of-maidan/tnamp/
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-68-putins-challenge-to?utm_source=url
https://ctc.usma.edu/the-nexus-between-far-right-extremists-in-the-united-states-and-ukraine/
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea
https://www.rt.com/news/156652-odessa-fire-mainstream-media/
Nothing embodies the idea of sport as politics pursued by other means so clearly, and painfully, as the 1932/1933 cricket tour of Australia by the MCC. This story has everything: class struggle and prejudice: camaraderie across the class divide; the attempt of a decadent empire to exert control over its uppity colony at a time of economic crisis; the wonderful complexity of Douglas Jardine who hated Australians from above but was always a good friend to the Nottinghamshire miner, Harold Larwood; the secret illegitimate child of the chairman of England selectors bowling for England in the series; splits in the Australian team based around hatred of Bradman and ill feeling between the Irish Catholics and the Free Masons in the camp; all that and some great cricket featuring some of the best who ever played the game. Apart from the fascinating politics this is one of the best Australian soap operas you will ever encounter.
Nothing embodies the idea of sport as politics pursued by other means so clearly, and painfully, as the 1932/1933 cricket tour of Australia by the MCC.
You may not like bicycles, you may not be that keen on cyclists, but the history of cycling and its impact is fascinating, and radical. In the second of this two-parter we talk to Les Doherty of the mighty pedal4progress about that history .
You may not like bicycles, you may not be that keen on cyclists, but the history of cycling and its impact is fascinating, and radical. In this two-part episode we talk to Les Doherty of the mighty pedal4progress about that history, more next week.
At the same time, marriages among people who lived between six and 12 miles apart doubled. But, Perry pointed out that “It must equally be remembered that, as late as 1927-36, three-quarters of all working-class marriages were to a distance of less than 12 miles.”
Perry concluded that the greater genetic diversity brought about by the change in distance between marriage partners was caused by the arrival of the bicycle.
In this Red Caste we talk to Professor Collins about his Sport in Capitalist Society, a book which could be the text book for this series.
His books have won the Aberdare Prize for Sports History four times since 1999 and he has been a consultant to numerous TV and radio programmes including the excellent Codebreakers about Welsh Rugby union players who went north to play for League clubs.
In March 2018 he began the weekly Rugby Reloaded podcast on the history of rugby and the other football codes, which is highly recommended.
His latest book is Rugby League: A People’s History, published in July 2020. He is a prolific author some of his books are listed here:
The history of all hitherto existing Rugby codes is the history of class struggle. Here we talk with the best historian in the field about how Rugby League arose from the class politics of Britain in the late 19th century, and how its history has continued to reflect the vicissitudes of that struggle.
His books have won the Aberdare Prize for Sports History four times since 1999 and he has been a consultant to numerous TV and radio programmes including the excellent Codebreakers about Welsh Rugby union players who went north to play for League clubs.
His latest book is the excellent Rugby League: A People’s History it was published in July 2020. He is a prolific author but a special mention here for the People’s History , Rugby’s Great Split, about the context of the breakaway of some northern clubs to form what would evolve into the Rugby League code, the greatest game of all. And the magnificent Sport in Capitalist Society, which is basically the subtext of this whole Red Caste series on sport and politics, this book forms the topic of our next episode.
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.