Living the Dream

Queensland: beautiful one day, workers’ paradise the next?

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 Keynesianism does not work?

Statement on Monetary Policy February 2015

Stranger Choices: Getting ready for the hangover

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

Stranger Choices: Qld Uncut - Lessons for tomorrow's struggle

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

Stranger Choices: Pig City! Anti-Politics, Law & Order and Populism

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

Stranger Choices Queensland Election #1: elections, Joh, debt and emancipatory politics

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 2^nd half….

'...from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again': "Really Existing Socialism", Liberalism and Violence

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.  

Living the Dream, Words from Struggle Street #2 No Shelter

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

Living the Dream, Words from Struggle Street #1 UOW Uncut

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

Work, Workers and Organisation Part 2

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!

Work, Workers and Organisation Part 1

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). 

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