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UG#637 - The Preliminaries Of A Vision (Of A World We Might Want)

Robin Upton | 13-05-2013 16:21 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield | World

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This week an invitation to reflect on capitalism in crisis not as an economic but a political phenomenon. We hear two 'bigger picture' talks on the interrelationships between Economics and Politics, one with a European focus, one which concentrates on USA. First Tariq Ali gives us "The Rotten Heart of Europe" summarising the machinations of the political elite in Europe. Next it is Gar Alperovitz, author of "America Beyond Capitalism", on the growth of US movements to decentralize wealth and ownership.

UG#635 - Apocalypse Postponed (Perspectives On A Progressive Future)

Robin Upton | 07-05-2013 14:46 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Last episode we reflected on whether people's penchant for doomsday predictions and tales of the living dead was connected to their common experience of life under capitalism. This time, given the absence of an apocalyptic Mayan doomsday event, we ask whether a conscious effort to reject such catastrophism is in order, and what a progressive future might look like.

UG#634 - The Coming Apocalypse etc. (Catastrophism, Zombies, The "Fiscal Cliff")

Robin Upton | 07-05-2013 03:13 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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On our last show before December 21st, 2012, we examine the spectre of 'catastrophe'. Does the popularity of undead imagery reveal anything about modern society? We begin by revisiting David Graeber's insights on Tiv mythology at the time of the African slave trade, then examine the underpinning of the modern university and schooling systems as a way to decode the barrage of modern day warnings of the 'Fiscal Cliff'.

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UG#633 - Putting The 'Mental' Back in Environmental (Food Waste & FMNR In Niger)

Robin Upton | 05-05-2013 02:11 | Analysis | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Is planet earth facing a food crisis? Are there too many people here? Can humanity afford to tackle desertification in the Sahel? Filmmaker Mike Freedman, food activist Tristram Stuart, author Ronald Wright and finally permaculturist and aid worker Tony Rinaudo all contribute their voices to this week's challenge to simplistic and reductionist thinking on such matters.

UG#632 - The War On Kids (The Youth Of Today's Toxic Legacy)

Robin Upton | 01-05-2013 03:12 | Analysis | Education | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Whether in terms of biodiversity, Peak Oil, water shortages or whatever, we've looked many times on this show at the damaged and degraded planet earth that we are leaving for our children. This week we take another angle, looking at the damage done to the very brains and minds of our children.

Protest in London

UK Zapatista Solidarity Network | 28-04-2013 17:56 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | London | Sheffield | World

Demand for an End to the Attacks on the Zapatista Support Base Community of San Marcos Avilés

Sheffield workfare protest, Saturday May 4th

Unite Community Sheffield | 27-04-2013 15:18 | Workfare | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

On Saturday May 4th, starting at 1pm, Unite Community members will be protesting outside Poundland on the Moor as part of the ongoing national campaign against the government's workfare schemes. We hope you can make it. For more information, see the facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/226383464152953/

UG#631 - John Taylor Gatto, Genius (Extended Childhood and Western Spirituality)

Robin Upton | 24-04-2013 18:01 | Analysis | Education | Social Struggles | Sheffield

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This week, exceptionally, we hear two pieces from a single speaker, John Taylor Gatto. After a period of neglect following a stroke in 2011, Gatto is steadily recovering. We reflect on his genius with two classic talks: "Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!" and "The Neglected Genius of American Spirituality".

Scottish Coal's Collapse : The Untold Story

Steve Leary | 23-04-2013 17:03 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | Wales

On Friday 20/4/13, Scotland's largest producer of surface mined coal, Scottish Coal went into liquidation. LAON's press release suggests that reasons other than those which have dominated news items about this event, lie behind this collapse. This press release aims at putting the record strait. In so doing, it raises questions as to whether large scale opencast mining operations, under present circumstanace will ever be profitable in Scotland again.

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Private security fine the public on Public streets in Leeds

Leeds Street Cat amoungst the pigeons. | 23-04-2013 10:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Leeds Council sign cosy deal in which a Tory councillor run private security firm will fine the public on public streets in a breathtaking reduction of civil rights.

Shell to Sea campaigner to speak in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester

Shell to Hell | 19-04-2013 13:02 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | London | Sheffield

Local resident and Shell to Sea campaigner Terence Conway will be speaking in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester to give an update on campaign against Shell in Ireland & promote the Rossport Solidarity Camp week of action happening there in June.

UG#629 - Speaking Forbidden Truths (The Poor Had No Lawyers, Monetarism's Fail)

Robin Upton | 11-04-2013 18:26 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week we conclude our reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years with a focus on the fraud of land 'ownership' and economics. A mix of new and familiar speakers include a reading by Lyn Gerry from episode 90 and a radio adaptation of an Adam Curtis film, The League of Gentlemen.

UG#628 - Asking Forbidden Questions (Why Do People Put Up With Capitalism?)

Robin Upton | 05-04-2013 02:39 | History | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week we learn how much effort has been put to making people assume that the virtues of capitalism are beyond question. We hear three Marxian commentators offering their own angles on the development of capitalism in USA, interspersed with a reprise of Noam Chomsky from episode 29 on the elite's determination to control the public mind lest the democratic state serve the wishes of the majority rather than the privilege of the few.

Planning and Opencast Coal: the Bad and the Good News

Steve Leary | 03-04-2013 13:49 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | Birmingham | Sheffield

LAON's latest Press Release provides an update on the Growth and Infrastructure Bill Clause 24 plus progress on the Halton Lea Gate Judicial Review. In addition news that a Health Impact Assessment process is to be used to assess the health aspects of the Deanfield Surface Mine Application near Sharston, Wakefield.

LAON's Review of English Opencast Site Applications for March 2013

Steve Leary | 02-04-2013 14:14 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | Birmingham | Sheffield

This review highlights recent developments affecting new opencast site applications in England. it includes news that the first Health Impact Assessment for a new opencast site in England for 4 years is underway in Wakefield for the Deanfield Site. The Judicial Appeal over the Halton Lea Gate decision makes progress and coal extraction by surface methods could return to Walsall as part of the process of reclaiming and remediating the Phoenix 10 / IMI Coppper Works site.

Land.

Emilio José Lemos de Lima | 01-04-2013 19:07 | Analysis | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Do more, I continue, is at the heart of our proposal, putting under increasing national and citizen control all the vast and complex productive chains of agriculture and agro-industry of the XXI century, with invaluable impact on what we call productive intelligence per capita.

UG#624 - The Vast Machine To Perpetuate Hopelessness (Marxian Class Analysis 1)

Robin Upton | 29-03-2013 17:46 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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As we approach the climax of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, we begin a series of talks by Economics Professor Richard Wolff introducing Marxian class analysis.

UG#625 - Jettisoning Accustomed Categories of Thought (Marxian Class Analysis 2)

Robin Upton | 29-03-2013 17:39 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield

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This week is something of a continuation of episode #624, featuring the second part of economics professor Richard Wolff on Marxian class analysis, and we approach the end of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. I hope it works as an aid to help to rethink what you think you know about economics and politics and to jettison any categories of thought which you find unhelpful.

UG#626 - Where Communism Meets Capitalism (TPPA, Marxian Class Analysis 3)

Robin Upton | 29-03-2013 17:33 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Sheffield

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This episode we note some similarities between the so called extreme 'left' and 'right' ends of the political spectrum - when the government claims the ability to unilaterally decide how to run things, the stated ideology often goes by the board anyway. Bryan Gould discusses the confidential 'trade agreement' TPP, noting that it is less about free trade and more about subduing national sovereignty to the multinational corporations who devised it. In our second hour, we continue with Richard Wolff's Marxian class analysis, looking specifically at the 1917 Russian revolution.

UG#627 - The Progressive Process of Desocialization (Marxian Class Analysis 4)

Robin Upton | 29-03-2013 17:28 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield

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This week, two Marxist professors speak on the social impact of capitalism and especially in USA. First, Silvia Federici speaks on 'The Progressive Process of Desocialization', how capitalism breaks down communities and people's human relationships of care. Next it is the turn of Richard Wolff who applies his Marxian class analysis to the US household, noting that more and more adults are rejecting the traditional (feudal) model of domestic exploitation and either living alone or in more egalitarian patterns.

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