This week on the show, we sat down with Bayla Ostrach, an activist, anarchist, longtime defender, provider of and researcher around issues of reproductive healthcare, particularly abortion and abortion access in the so-called US & Catalunya.
An interview with Marko of Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative in Belgrade, Serbia about the Ecological Uprising of November and December to stop jadarite mining and other initiatives that could destroy water, air and soil in the Balkan mountains, antifascist perspectives on far right organizing in Belgrade, the presence of US neo-nazi Rob Rundo in the fascist scene, and challenges to left anti-authoritarian organizing in the former Yugoslavia.
Mèo Mun is an anarchist collective working to make anarchist materials and ideas more accessible to a Vietnamese audience, together with providing an analysis of social struggles from a Vietnamese anarchist lens. We talk about broken promises of socialism from the government, queer experiences in Vietnam, the legacy of Agent Orange and colonialism, use of nationalism by the regime and more.
For the hour, Tom and Nicole of Bristol Anarchist Black Cross talk about the #KillTheBill, police violence in the UK, the radical scene in Bristol, anti-repression work of Bristol ABC & Bristol Defendant Solidarity, the legacy of former Bristol resident Anna Campbell, the cases of the Colston 4 as well as that of Toby Shone, prison expansion in the UK and more.
This week we’re sharing a chat that Scott Branson had about Transgender Marxism (2021, Pluto Press) with Jules Gleeson (co-Editor, Contributor) and M.E. O’Brien (contributor). Transgender Marxism brings together Transgender Studies and Marxist theory, exploring Transgender lives and movements and surviving as Trans under Capitalism. In the end, the claim of the book is that for Trans Liberation, Capitalism must be abolished.
This week, we spoke with Elyse Max, State Director of Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty about the life of Ernest Johnson, the media and court situation he faced, his twice overturned death penalty, the links between the lynching of Black people in the US and the current death penalty, intersections of race and class in who are the victims of capital cases and who sit on death rows, the mishandling of Ernests intellectual disability in the case and other topics.
This week on the show, you’ll hear our conversation with Mwalimu Shakur (also known as Terrence White), a politicized, New Afrikan revolutionary prison organizer incarcerated at Corcoran prison in California.
This week, we’re excited to (re-)present a 2015 conversation with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley, editors and authors of their book out from AK Press entitled “Dixie Be Damned: 300 years of Insurrection in the American South”. The book is a study of Maroon, Indigenous, White, Black, worker, farmer, slave, indentured, women and men wrestling against institutions of power for autonomy and self-determination.
A June 11 conversation with anarchists who do support for prisoners from the Fergusson Uprising of 2014, an activist from Atlanta doing jail support and bail fund work, former anarchist prisoner and hactivist Jeremy Hammond on his experience of organizing in prison and his brother Jason on working in Chicago with the Community Bond Fund. This June 11 we talk about long term anarchist prisoners, anti-repression work from the 2020 uprising and beyond.
This week, I spoke with John from the Working Class History collective and host of their WCH podcast. We spoke about the new book, “Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance”, that WCH has published through PM Press, their archives, methodology, the project of popularizing working class, movement and human-sized history and a bunch more.
