In this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Angus from the Queer Liberation Front. Angus lets us know what the QLF are all about, what they have been doing and what they are up to. Angus talks about the QLF's praxis and how this collective of young queer people are attempting to generate a radical anticapitalist politics, how hegemony and aesthetics fit together and how this all relates to the current "Brisbane Moment' that is going on. And then we finish it all off wi...
Sep 20, 2016•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of LivingThe Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) have a chat aboutthe recent election. It isn’t a chat about if the result is ‘good’ or ‘bad’but rather how does it fit into, and what does it tell us, about the current momentin capitalism in Australia and class struggle?We also try to work out therelationship between the electoral return of Pauline Hanson and the deepcurrent of racism in Australia. These articles are some we either mention or are on topic TheElecti...
Jul 14, 2016•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini ) andDave (@withsobersenses) chat with Anna – all-round good egg and comrade pivotalto Radio Reversal and Brisbane Free University –about the successful Brisbane City Council election campaign of Jonathan Sri , the opposition to the WestVillage development and the emergence of struggles around the Right to theCity. What’s going on, how do all these pieces fit together and what do theytell us about struggles within-against-and-beyond capitalism...
Jun 16, 2016•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave( @withsobersenses) talk about the meltdown of politics in Queensland and the failure of the ALP government to carry out a coherent plan to address the decline in capital accumulation and facilitate social reproduction. Rob Pyne resigning from Labor (#corbynofcairns ?), candidates sending dicks pics and the shared anti-political language of both sides of the referendum campaign show a political class in freefall and deeply out of touc...
Mar 15, 2016•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Camilla and Eliza from Sovereignty Solidarity. Sovereignty Solidarity describes their Facebook page as follows: ‘We aim to support First Nations(FN) initiatives for self determination, sovereignty, treaties, and moving forward. We take action based on our understanding of these perspectives and aim to concretely support FN initiatives. We are a non-FN specific page because we believe non-FN peoples have specific de-colonisati...
Feb 09, 2016•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Living the Dream: Welfare, Social Reproduction and Social Impact Bonds In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Rob talk about how the provision of welfare and social services are changing. We chat about the concept of social reproduction, the welfare state and its evolution and critically investigate new developments. As the mining boom ends, the world teeters on a the edge of another economic meltdown and states struggle with increasing amounts of debt we ask what’s going on with welfare an...
Jan 24, 2016•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) chat with Jackson who has been an organiser with AYCC and for the Peoples Climate March in Brisbane . We talk about the opposition to the Adani mine project, the PCM, some of the experiences and developments within the climate justice movement, the role NGOs play and how this fits together with a broader understanding of capitalism and our struggles for lives of dignity and justice Some of the material referred directly, indirectly, i...
Jan 12, 2016•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Jon (@jonpiccini) take some time to reflect on 2015 and go through the entrails to make some predictions about 2016. What happened in 2015 and what does it tell us about capitalism and the struggle against it? And how do we even try to make sense of it all? Articles and writers mentioned are: A panel on the work of Lisa Vogel’s Marxism and The Oppression of Women Prabhat Patnaik on Capitalism and Its Current Crisis Dave’s previous writing on #TURC can ...
Jan 07, 2016•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this show Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about what is going on in Queensland under the ALP. We look at the attempt to fund social reproduction and stimulate capital accumulation in the conditions of the end of the mining boom - all whilst trying to manufacture social peace. Special attention is given to the Advance Queensland initiative.
Nov 10, 2015•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) will be talking about two recent articles by Jon that trace the changes in key concepts in the languages of activism and the Left (for lack of better terms) and the reasons for and the potential costs of these changes. The articles discussed are: Human Rights and the Left and Damned Whores and God’s Police, liberation and the power of activist language: A guest post by Jon Piccini...
Oct 26, 2015•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast After months of silence Living the Dream podcasts are back. Here we look at the prominence of conspiracy theories, what it is about contemporary capitalism that gives rise to them and what this means for anti-capitalist politics. Music from Chumbawamba , Total Control , Voight-Kampff , Belgrado , Grey Places and Downtown Boys...
Oct 13, 2015•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Living the Dream we look at the recent Qld election and try to grapple with what it all means, what the new ALP government is planning to do, what the challenges facing capital accumulation are and where the lines of antagonism may be. Music from The Saints and Tina Harris Articles referred include: Don't Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts Of Lessons For The Left Economic and Fiscal Challenges: Interim Results of Medium Term Modelling From the Subprime to the Sovereign Crisis. Why Ke...
Feb 19, 2015•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast In part four of our three part series on the Qld election we talk about what can we expect after the votes have been counted and what does this mean for emancipatory politics, where can we draw our hope and power from and what do we mean by ‘we’ anyway? Music by Razar
Jan 30, 2015•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Here in part 3 of our #livingthedream election special Rob reflects on the experience of Qld Uncut and the lessons that can be learnt for social struggles for dignity and emancipation whoever wins the upcoming election. First track from http://rokumusic.com
Jan 25, 2015•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In part two of Stranger Choices we look at the concepts of anti-politics and depoliticisation and how they might help us understand the elections in Queensland. We examine the role law and order plays, the populism of the Palmer United Party and the contradictions, the promise and the problems of a very exceptional Greens candidate Jonathan Sri . The articles discussed in this podcast are Anti-politics: Elephant in the room Policing Newman’s Crisis: Law And Order, Hegemony And The State...
Jan 15, 2015•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Here is part one of a three part ( hopefully) series about the Queensland election. In this episode Dave and Jon talk about elections and their role in capitalism, the limitation of Left understandings of the Newman government, the link between the global crisis and debt and privatisation in Queensland and more! And we did all of this on our lunchbreak in a noisy café! Sound quality gets better in the 2nd half…....
Jan 12, 2015•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is part 1 of an attempt to examine the nature and history of "really existing socialism" and the impact this has on attempting to imagine and enact emancipatory politics today. Here I deal with how the very real violence of the party-states is used to ideologically mask the violence of the liberal order.
Dec 30, 2014•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast No Shelter! A Collective Against Gendered Violence We talk with Rascal a participant in No Shelter! A Collective Against Gendered Violence about the struggle against the closure of services for survivors of domestic violence, the transformations in the provision of welfare, the role that gender and the home play in contemporary capitalism and more!Rascal has written about these issues here as part of the new blog Full Prole Science...
Sep 11, 2014•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey comrades, today we talk with Alexander about the struggle around the budget arising from UOW campus, the limitations and challanges they face, friendship, new potentials and some of the lessons from Japan .This podcast complements an article written by Alexander here
Sep 08, 2014•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi Comrades Today we are talking with Andrew a comrade who is a teacher in NSW about what's going on for teachers, the union and attempts to struggle and organise.Down with Empire, Up with Spring!
Jul 12, 2014•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is part one of our investigation into our days at work, experiences of work, the various forms of worker self-activity and the positives and negatives of our experiences with unions. We are talking to Michael who works for Qld Rail. You will hear Renee, Tom, Dave & Rob ( and Arlo in the background). #HooHaLTD
May 19, 2014•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Living the Dream of the podcast of the HooHaGroup http://thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com #HooHa LTD
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