Rupture Radio

Following on from the horrific murder of Ashling Murphy, and the massive outpouring of anger, we look at an article by Jess Spear and Diana O'Dwyer discussing how we can end the pandemic of male violence against women.

Article from 25 November 2020, read by Jess Spear. Find the article here: https://www.letusrise.ie/featured-articles/pyej3sr8nizwqwjan9916x3xwz5e4w

This week Diarmuid and Dave sat down with socialist activist and PBP member Seán Mitchell to discuss what place elections and parliaments have in socialist strategy for today.

Seán wrote a pamphlet on the same topic which can be found on the REBEL website here - http://www.rebelnews.ie/2021/03/09/lenin-elections-socialist-hegemony-new-pamphlet/

Seán is also the author of Struggle Or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots which can be found here - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1049-struggle-or-starve

---

Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and   culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture -   Ireland's eco-socialist quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie 

Any comments or queries please send them to [email protected] or get in touch on Twitter.

See you next week, cheers!

Social media:

Rupture Radio https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_

Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_

A special episode this week where Cian gets to sit down with Meg Morrigan and Kiran Emrich to discuss and debate the Netflix sensation Don't Look Up. The panel debate if this is this an excellent film, inspired by Bertolt Brecht and dialectical materialism? Or is it just an overly-long, over-the-top, hard to watch non-comedy? 

Meg is a socialist activist with a background in film and theatre and wrote a positive review of the film for 'Reform & Revolution', a US sister publication to Rupture. However Kiran, PBP activist from Galway, is not so convinced by the film, leading to some interesting exchanges.

Check out Meg's review here: https://reformandrevolution.org/2021/12/27/how-not-to-save-the-world-dont-look-up-tells-it-how-it-is/

And let us know what film or show you'd like us to review next on the podcast; tweet us @ruptureradio_ or email us at [email protected]

--

Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and   culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture - Ireland's eco-socialist quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie  Anyone who would like to support the podcast can do so on our Patreon. This will also allow you to get extra content and have a say in topics and interviews we take on. Sign up today at https://www.patreon.com/ruptureradio

This week Diarmuid sits down with activists Eve Seitchik and Ty Moore to discuss recent events in America including the recent mid-term elections, the position of the socialist left, the position of the far-right, and the recent strike waves that took place across the country.

Both Ty and Eve are members of the Reform and Revolution caucus in the DSA. More info on the caucus and their publication can be found on the R&R website here - https://reformandrevolution.org/. Reform and Revolution Magazine can be found here - https://reformandrevolution.org/magazine/

Please note that this discussion was recorded in November 2021 and so a handful of events which took place after this will not be covered. 

--

Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and   culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture - Ireland's eco-socialist quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie 

Any comments or queries please send them to [email protected] or get in touch on Twitter.

See you next week, cheers!

Social media:

Rupture Radio https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_

Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_

Reform and Revolution https://twitter.com/dsarandr

Eve Seitchik - https://twitter.com/eve_s_dsa 

Further reading:

2021 Elections: Democrats Defeated — Corporate Media Blames the Left - https://reformandrevolution.org/2021/11/08/2021-elections-democrats-defeated-corporate-media-blames-the-left/

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" as Lenin said. Well, there's also years that feel like a lifetime, and 2021 was one. In an act of collective therapy, we have an in-person panel discussion reviewing the year and more generally looking over lessons we can draw from the past 21 months of Covid.

Paul Murphy drops in once more, and we are also joined by special guest Conor Reddy. We talk about the changing world of Irish politics, the never-ending nightmare of Covid and the first throws of the 'Great Bo Burnham Faction Fight of 2022' are recorded for posterity. We also cast our eyes forward to what next year can hold, challenges and opportunities for the left, and we even give some Christmas present ideas for the red in your bed (or otherwise in your life).

Thanks to Connolly Books for letting us record in their bookshop in Temple Bar, we hope to be back in the future for full live shows.

--

Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People Before Profit, and is linked to Rupture - Ireland's eco-socialist quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie  Anyone who would like to support the podcast can do so on our Patreon. This will also allow you to get extra content and have a say in topics and interviews we take on. Sign up today at https://www.patreon.com/ruptureradio

Any comments or queries please send them to [email protected] or get in touch on Twitter.

See you next week, cheers!

Social media:

Rupture Radio https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_

Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_

This week our panel is joined from beautiful Barcelona by eco-socialist in exile Saoirse McHugh. We swap stories about lessons from Spanish city planning before diving in to real talk about peat extraction, FF & FG's political theatre of pretending to care about small farmers and the Covid fourth wave. An impromptu debate on the slogan of system change, and the strengths and weaknesses of boycotts sparks some interesting questions for future episodes and ideas for raging polemics.

One issue we never got to discuss was this shocking story of the Irish judicial system completely failing to take violence against women seriously - content warning, the article contains information of sexual assault: https://www.thejournal.ie/sexual-assault-3-5605157-Nov2021

--

Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture - Ireland's eco-socialist quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie  Anyone who would like to support the podcast can do so on our Patreon. This will also allow you to get extra content and have a say in topics and interviews we take on. Sign up today at https://www.patreon.com/ruptureradio

Any comments or queries please send them to [email protected] or get in touch on Twitter.

See you next week, cheers!

Social media:

Rupture Radio https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_

Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_

Further reading:

Diarmuid and Michael return to welcome back Corner Späti's own Ciarán Dold to the podcast. Ciarán joins us again to discuss the recent events in Berlin in relation to a September referendum in which over 1 million Berliners voted to socialise near two hundred forty thousand apartments in the German capital. Ciarán also gives a sense of how this referendum came about, what it means, and what the political scene is like in Berlin. 

You can usually catch Ciarán on the Corner Späti podcast which can be found here and on all good podcast providers.

Listen to our previous episode with Ciarán and Rob from Corner Späti here!

That a with the two dots is really annoying to type. I wonder do they have to copy paste it all the time or do German keyboards have it built in.  

--

Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and   culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture - Ireland's eco-socialist quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie 

Any comments or queries please send them to [email protected] or get in touch on Twitter.

See you next week, cheers!

Social media:

Rupture Radio https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_

Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_

Further reading:

In Berlin, We Won a Vote to Nationalize the Big Landlords - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/berlin-germany-nationalize-big-landlords-organizing-housing-campaign-rent-prices

This week we are joined by People Before Profit activist, and RTE award-nominated musician, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin to discuss the Cop 26 climate summit. We also talk to Eoghan about the protests he has organised about the slow death of cultural spaces in Dublin with the Cobblestone, Merchant's Arch, Chapters & Science Gallery all on the chopping block. And we chat a bit about the brutal attempted eviction of residents at Sunnyvale Social Centre on Prussia Street, Dublin.

---

Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and   culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture -   Ireland's eco-socialist quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie 

Any comments or queries please send them to [email protected] or get in touch on Twitter.

See you next week, cheers!

Social media:

Rupture Radio https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_

Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_

This bank holiday weekend we take a break and re-run one of our favourite interviews, discussing ecosocialism with Jess Spear and John Moluneux. With the major Cop 26 climate conference coming up, and protests across the country and globe on November 6th, we thought this was a good time to revisit some of these issues.

For info on the Cop26 demos in Ireland check out: https://www.facebook.com/COP26CoalitionIreland

If you are interested in purchasing this pamphlet you can do so for €3.50 at the following link.

John Molyneux is a long-standing socialist activist, author, member of People Before Profit, and editor of the Irish Marxist Review which can be found here.

Jess is a paleoceanographer, author, member of RISE, and editor of Rupture Magazine which can be found here.

Both are members of the Global Ecosocialist Network which can be found here.

John has been doing some introductory videos on Marxist concepts and ideas which can be found here.

Any comments or queries please get in touch on Twitter https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_ /

See you next week, cheers!

This week, Cian chats to Des Hennelly to review Budget 2022, digging beneath the government's spin in areas including contraception, inflation, ICU/hospital beds, housing and public transport to uncover how its responses to these issues remains utterly inadequate. Cian and Des also discuss the ecosocialist proposals put forward by People Before Profit in its alternative budget, outlining what needs to be done to tackle these crises.

--

Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and   culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture - Ireland's eco-socialist quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie 

Any comments or queries please send them to [email protected] or get in touch on Twitter.

See you next week, cheers!

Social media:

Rupture Radio https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_

Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_

Des https://twitter.com/leftistdad

Further reading:

People Before Profit, 'Budget 2022: a lasting dividend for workers', https://www.pbp.ie/budget-2022-after-covid-a-lasting-dividend-for-workers/