Rupture Radio

This week, Cian is joined by People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy and PBP and RISE activists Nicole McCarthy and Des Hennelly to discuss last week's Facebook outage, the whistleblower revelations about the company and the argument for nationalising Facebook. They also tackle recent developments regarding Ireland's corporation tax, this week's budget, and Ireland's worsening energy crisis.

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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!

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Paul https://twitter.com/paulmurphy_TD

Nicole https://twitter.com/Nicole80882468

Des https://twitter.com/leftistdad

Further Listening:

ATR - The Covid-19 Economic Crisis w/ Brian O'Boyle and Sami Mac Máistir, https://bit.ly/3ltfkX3

This week we were joined by writer and activist Hadas Thier to discuss her book “A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics”. 

The book can be purchased at the following link - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1481-a-people-s-guide-to-capitalism

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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_

Hadas Thier https://twitter.com/hadasthier

Further Listening: 

'Marx was Right: Economics for the 99% with Hadas Thier (8-26-20)', Haymarket Live, https://bit.ly/3tDcmBt

'Marxism 101: A World to Win w/ Hadas Thier', A World to Win podcast, https://apple.co/3C5bAQU

Further Reading:

Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism (Chicago, 2020), https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1481-a-people-s-guide-to-capitalism

This week, Cian sits down with RISE's Diana O'Dwyer and Dave Murphy to chat about Varadkar's foot-in-mouth gaffes on housing, wages, the Katherine Zappone cronyism scandal and CETA, People Before Profit's bill to ban data centres next week and this weekend's March for Choice in Dublin.

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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!

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Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_

Diana https://twitter.com/DianaODwyer 

Dave https://twitter.com/davemurf83

We're back! This week, Diarmuid sits down with researchers Patrick Brodie and Patrick Bresnihan to talk about their article on data centres which appeared in issue one of our sister magazine, Rupture. They discuss the role of data centres on the Irish economy, and their disastrous impact on our energy output and the environment.

Patrick Bresnihan is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University. Patrick has worked in fields of urban political ecology, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities.

Patrick Brodie is a media scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University in Montreal. His research focuses on the global and environmental politics of data and energy systems.

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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!

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Patrick Brodie https://twitter.com/patbrodie337

Patrick Bresnihan https://twitter.com/PBresnihan

Further Reading: 

Patrick Brodie and Patrick Bresnihan, 'Energy Vacuums: Data Centres, Renewable Energy and Rural Politics', Rupture, issue 1, https://bit.ly/energy-vacuums

Thea Riofrancos - What Green costs - https://logicmag.io/nature/what-green-costs/

Sharae Deckard - World Ecology and Ireland: The Neoliberal Ecological Regime - https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/641

Last week, bus Drivers rejected proposals jointly agreed by the transport unions and Dublin Bus by a margin of nearly 98%. These proposals would have dramatically altered their working conditions for the worse and would have led to further precarity in the sector.

Public Transport is a massive issue at the moment when it comes to climate change and the need to transform society in an ecosocialist direction.

However, instead of prioritising a just transition for workers employers continue to drive down working conditions and move towards further privatisation.

This week Diarmuid sits down with Bus Driver and SIPTU member Owen McCormack to discuss this dispute and its implications. 

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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_

Owen McCormack - https://twitter.com/owemcc

This week, Cian sits down with RISE's Diana O'Dwyer, Dave Murphy and Michelle Byrne of the Week in Work podcast to talk about the IPCC report, Scambridge, and what Katherine Zappone has been getting up to lately.

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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!

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In June, the Swedish Left Party withdrew its 'toleration' of  the sitting Social Democrat-Green government, pulling it down and defeating its proposal to remove rent controls and introduce marketised rents. This week, Cian sits down with Marco Jamil Espvall, editor of Internationalen, the Swedish newspaper of the Fourth International, to discuss the 'Swedish model' and the relevance of the Left Party's move to broader debates on how socialist parties should relate to soft-left governments.

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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_

Cian https://twitter.com/cianplk

Further Reading:

John Hörnquist, 'How Sweden's Left Party Stopped the Social Democrats Undermining of the Welfare State', Jacobin, 7 July 2021, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/sweden-left-party-social-democrats-welfare-state-rent-lofven-dadgostar

Since the 1970s, financial markets and corporations have increasingly enjoyed an unparalleled dominance in the housing sector internationally. This week, Michael sits down with Des Hennelly to talk about his article in the latest issue of Rupture on the commodification and financialisation of housing in Ireland. They discuss how successive Irish governments have driven the financialisation of housing ever deeper, and the task of socialists to work within housing movements to demand mass public housing programmes which begin the process of decommodifying the housing market and ensuring secure and affordable homes for all.

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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

Michael https://twitter.com/noironyintended

Further Reading:

Des Hennelly, 'The Deepening Housing Crisis: financialisation and accumulation', Rupture, no. 4, https://rupture.ie/articles/deepening-housing-crisis

This week, Nicole joins socialist feminist activist Emma Hendrick to discuss the tasks of the women's movement in Ireland today,  the limitations of the MoreMná campaign and liberal approaches calling for more involvement of women in politics which ignore the role of class and exclude working-class, Traveller, migrant and trans women, and the impact of Covid on women already burdened with the pressures of unpaid domestic labour. 

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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_

Emma https://twitter.com/Emm511 

Further Listening:

Rupture Radio International Women's Day Special w/ RISE activists Nicole, Jess and Diana - https://anchor.fm/ruptureradio/episodes/International-Womens-Day-Special-erv69v

Further Reading:

Emma's Rebel article on how a movement of the whole working class, and not the election of more women establishment politicians, will deliver liberation http://www.rebelnews.ie/2021/03/08/working-class-women-iwd/ 

Earlier this month, Cuba witnessed anti-government protests in various towns and cities which in turn sparked large counter-protests to 'Defend the Revolution'. This week we are joined by Jorge Martin of the International Marxist Tendency and Rupture regular Sami Mac Máistir to discuss the nature of the protests, the impact of the blockade of Cuba by US imperialism, and what role socialists outside of Cuba can play.

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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 Rupture Magazine; An Ecosocialist Quarterly at rupture.ie

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

See you next week, cheers!

Further Reading:

Jorge's article on In Defence of Marxism - Protests in Cuba: Defend the Revolution 

Jorge's author page - https://socialistrevolution.org/author/jorge-martin/

Rupture Radio https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_

Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_

Jorge https://twitter.com/marxistJorge