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Saturday Apr 01, 2017
Saturday Apr 01, 2017
In this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Godfrey Moase (@gemoase) the General Branch Assistant Secretary of the National Union of Workers. Godfrey had a number of criticisms of our last show . We talk about these and Godfrey also addresses the broader strategic and tactical possibilities for anticapitalist struggle and how they relate to trade unions.
You can find some of Godfrey’s writings here:
- Maintain the wage rage (with Carina Garland)
- Defending Australian Labor
- The case for a 30-hour working week
- Absorbing Corbyn
Other things we mention include:
Music by The Sweatshop Union
Thursday Mar 23, 2017
Thursday Mar 23, 2017
In this episode Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about the recent cuts to penalty rates by the Fair Work Commission . We dismiss the idea that this attack is actual just a product of ‘the Right’; rather it is a continuation of the 100+ year tradition of arbitration supported by the ALP and the mainstream of the ACTU in the context of the real contradictions of capital accumulation. We discuss the movement against penalty rate cut as well as the Big Steps walk off of early childcare educators and the challenges the class faces to recomposing our power and secure emancipation.
Stuff we mention includes
Fair Work Commission 4 yearly review of modern awards – Penalty Rates
Elizabeth Humphrys, ‘Australia Under The Accord (1983-1996)’
A Fiery Defence Of Sally McManus: Thank Civil Disobedience For The Gains Of Today
The problem with ‘Join your union’
Insights into Low Wage Growth in Australia
Top industrial judge resigns in disgust over 'biased' system
Music by Barrett Strong
Friday Feb 17, 2017
Friday Feb 17, 2017
In a special episode of Living The Dream, Max and Natalie (@DrNatOsborne) join Jon (@JonPiccini) to discuss radical happenings in Brisbane of late. We talk about the election of Jonathon Sri in the Brisbane City Council elections of last year, why Brisbane is experiencing such a strong wave of ‘right to the city’ activism and how these two interconnect. Musings on the interconnections between social movements and elections, the global and the local and culture and politics abound.
South Brisbane Greens - https://www.facebook.com/SouthBrisbaneGreens/
Right to the City Brisbane - https://www.facebook.com/righttothecitybrisbane/
tactical urbanism - http://tacticalurbanismguide.com/
Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - https://www.facebook.com/WARcollective/
Jonathon Sri, Councillor for the Gabba - https://www.facebook.com/jonno.sri/
Henri Lefebvre - https://chisineu.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lefebvre-henri-writings-on-cities.pdf
Music by the Mouldy Lovers - which was the painfully obvious choice.
Wednesday Feb 08, 2017
Wednesday Feb 08, 2017
In this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) have a very quick chat about Cory Bernardi quitting the Liberal party. We discuss how this is more evidence of the breakdown of politics/the rise of antipolitics; the attempts by the RBA to keep capital accumulation going through monetary policy whilst everything crumbles around them and what this means for radical strategy and tactics.
Stuff we mention includes:
National Press Club: Malcolm Turnbull
National Press Club: Bill Shorten
Unlegislated measures carried forward in the budget estimates—
February 2017 update
The Linguistic Nature of Money and Finance
Chart Pack Graphs on the Australian Economy and Financial Markets
Statement by Philip Lowe, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_5EFhzROqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wczfhXVYbxg
Antonio Negri Logic and Theory of Inquiry: militant praxis as subject and as episteme
Music from Fat White Family
Friday Jan 27, 2017
Friday Jan 27, 2017
In this episode of Living The Dream Jon (@jonpiccini ) and Dave (@withsobersenses) go through the entrails with an inverted periscope to try to see what we should expect for 2017. We chat about Invasion Day and the rising tide of Indigenous struggles, the Centrelink debacle, anti-Road protests and more. We are pretty optimistic about the year ahead and look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Articles, people and groups we mentioned or are relevant:
Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance –WAR
Police Clash With Flag-Burning Protesters At Invasion Day March In Sydney
http://twitter.com/AllanJClarke/status/824442249903697922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The Safety Pin and the Swastika
How the Centrelink debt debacle failure rate is much worse than we all thought
Adani coalmine activists gear up to fight: ‘This will dwarf the Franklin blockade’
Cottle, A. (2011), 'The Colour-line and the Third Period: A Comparative Analysis of American and Australian Communism and the Question of Race, 1928-1934', American Communist History, vol 10, no 2 , pp 119 - 131.
Working for the Class: The Praxis of the Wollongong Out of Workers’ Union
We play music from A.B. Original and DISPOSSESSED They are rad – support them.
Thursday Dec 22, 2016
Thursday Dec 22, 2016
In this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about the weird as hell political environment of the Age of Trump. Was 2016 the worst year ever? Are we caught in the midst of a rising reactionary wave? And why do the failures of the liberal establishment feel to so many people to be failures of the Left? (And what is the Left? Are we the Left?) What’s with the amateur sociology about voting demographics that is everywhere now? Do we really have to choose between identity politics and Left economic populism? Where can we draw hope from and what about the historical experience of working class anti-racism? All this and more!
Articles/organisations we refer to include:
Behind the News with Doug Henwood
Hard Crackers From A Small New England Town As Told To Noel Ignatiev
KING: There’s a huge education level drop-off with the Trump cabinet picks
Tsiolkas - The Second Coming The Politics Of Rage Won’t Let Us Listen To One Another
Many in Milwaukee Neighborhood Didn’t Vote — and Don’t Regret It
Revolutionary Hillbilly: An Interview With Hy Thurman of the Young Patriots Organization
Ghassan Hage – Recalling anti-racism
Knives out for Hanson staffer Ashby, accused of profiting off candidates
The great student swindle: how young people are being ripped off
Music by Sharon Jones and Dap-kings and Joe Pug
And watch this footage of this amazing meeting between the Black Panthers and the Young Patriots.
Sunday Dec 11, 2016
Sunday Dec 11, 2016
In this episode of Living The Dream, Dave (@withsobersenses ) chats with Carmen about the Workplace Organising 101 training she recently provided in Brisbane. Carmen talks about the purpose and structure of this training, its relationship to anarcho-syndicalism and reflects critically on the contribution it can play to developing our collective power and overcoming capitalism.
Organisations mentioned include:
Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union (FAU)
Music by Dolly Parton and Marianne Faithful
Wednesday Dec 07, 2016
Wednesday Dec 07, 2016
In this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Kieran (@Kieran Bennett) about a recent Melbourne counter-rally to a Trump celebration rally ostensibly organised by #altright types and attended by local fascists and neo-Nazis. From here Kieran lets us know who is who in the fascist zoo in Australia, the social phenomena behind the far-right and we discuss what a relevant anti-capitalist practice might be that can defeat the fascists and offer a genuine emancipatory alternative to the issues that we all face.
Kieran blogs at Kieran’s Review and is a member (of the perhaps soon to be rebranded) Anarchist Affinity
Articles and things we refer to include:
Ghassan Hage – Recalling Anti-racism
Ben Hillier – ‘All that is holy was profaned’: the year that was, and the politics we need (Ben recommends you also read ‘Post-truth politics’ isn’t peak populism, it’s peak liberal capitalism and suggests that my read of his argument is wrong.)
Wednesday Nov 02, 2016
Wednesday Nov 02, 2016
In this episode of Living The Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about the US Election and the phenomenon of Donald Trump. We aren’t interest so much is speculations about what is going on in the US but rather what the different ways Trump and Clinton are talked about in Australia tells us about what is going on in Australia.
Articles we refer to include:
Debating Deplorables: How the Left Can (and Cannot) Win Trump Voters
Theses on the New European Fascism
Time to hail Hillary Clinton – and face down the testosterone left
Tuesday Sep 20, 2016
Tuesday Sep 20, 2016
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 with a track from Los Crudos