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Labor Resistance on Vinyl (with Josh MacPhee + Kennedy Block)

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This week, we’re sharing a recent interview with Kennedy Block and Josh MacPhee, editors of Strike While The Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Workers Revolt from Common Notions. We speak about audio strike records, their role, what they tell us about the struggles they cover or were produced to amplify, and a bit about where music and popular resistance stand today.

Until the end of the month, the book is available from CommonNotions.org with a 15% discount if you check out using the code: strike15 .

Josh can be reached on instagram via @jmacphee or via email at josh@justseeds.org

They’re also both involved with Interference Archive (which produced audio of this collection of Stop Cop City communiques for their podcast, Audio Interference), and Josh is a co-founder of JustSeeds.Org, produces Signal Journal (he was interviewed by Ian for the show on the topic)

Free Jack, Free The Airwaves zine can be found here

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Featured Tracks:

  • Sciopero Interno by Fausto Amodei from Sciopero Interno, 1968, Italy [ 00:17:04 ]
  • More Percent by Kirk Thorne from Songs from the NCU Strike, 1987, UK [ 00:36:11 ]
  • A Year and a Bit by The Hindle Strikers with TBE from Part of the Union!, 1984 , UK[ 00:58:04 ]
  • Viva La Huelga! by Polibio Mayorga from La Huelga, 1982, Ecuador [ 01:18:12 ]
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Anarchism and Disability, plus A-Radio Segments

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This week, we spoke with Richard Amm, a member of the Disability Action Research Kollective, or DARK, which they describe as a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. Amar and Richard speak about disability, eugenics, radical history the Corona virus and other topics. You can learn more about the project at linktr.ee/disabilityark

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Then we’ll feature two segments from the May 2025 episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World, the English-language podcast of the A-Radio Network.

First up, A-Radio Berlin shared a conversation about the political motivated arrests and harassment of members of the Labor Desk Confederation of Trade Unions in Azerbaijan, which is calling for international solidarity.

The Labor Desk Confederation of Trade Unions in Azerbaijan is calling for international solidarity following the politically motivated arrests of its chairman Afiaddin Mammadov and fellow unionists Aykhan Israfilov, Elvin Mustafayev, and Mohyaddin Orujov. These arrests are part of a systematic crackdown on independent labor organizing in Azerbaijan..

https://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=5634

Next, Črna Luknja from Ljubljana conducted an interview with OLTA (Open Leftist Assembly of Antifascist, Carinthia) from south-west of austria.They are mobilizing against the so-called “Burschentag” of the Austrian Pennaler Ring ,which is the association of the conservative fraternities.The austrian Pennaler Ring is connected with the ruling, fascist party FPÖ and extra-parliamentary extreme right.

Finally, Sean Swain’s segment

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