Welcome to Episode 3 of the Comrade Cast: "Take the Red Pill… of Socialism". Join us as we delve into the multifaceted world of Socialism, exploring its historical roots, political impact, and contemporary relevance. Learn about the challenges and benefits of this political ideology, and how it shapes nations and societies worldwide. Tune in for a comprehensive understanding of Socialism in today's geopolitical landscape.

Take the Red Pill… of Socialism: Comrade Cast - Episode 3

Step into Episode 14 of the Comrade Cast, titled "Does the Left Hate Men?", where we confront this contentious question head-on. Delve into a nuanced discussion about gender perceptions within leftist politics, focusing particularly on views related to men and masculinity. We dissect societal stereotypes and engage in a balanced analysis of gender issues within the political landscape. Join us for a thought-provoking debate.

Does the Left Hate Men?: Comrade Cast - Episode 14

In the 49th episode we talk to Howie Hawkins, a former Teamsters trade union activist, one of the leaders of the Green movement in the USA and former canidate for numerous public offices representing the Green Party of the United States. Howie visited Poland as part of his European tour devoted primarily to strenghtening the international solidarity with Ukraine which he supports from the ecosocialist perspective. We talk about the intersection of the Red and the Green in the context of a global surge of the far-right, Trump's victory, Russian imperialism and Ukrainian resistance as well as Murray Bookichin who once inspired Abdullah Ocalan and the Kurdish movement and whose social-ecologist ideas inspired Howie's succesful efforts to push the American Greens towards a socialist programme. Please visit Howie's website which is full of interesting resources and dispatches from his European tour: https://howiehawkins.us/

In conversation with Howie Hawkins - Ukraine, American Left, history and future

Sarah Marie Wiebe is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria whose research and solidarity work focuses on community development and environmental justice. When we last spoke on the pod, we looked at her writing broadly, but this time around we’re marking the release of her fantastic new book Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency, from Fernwood Publishing. 

Hot Mess is a remarkable book, giving readers a nuanced effort to navigate a temporality of disaster, whether the slow disaster of air pollution or the searing trauma of wildfire, while working to manifest the kinds of caring relations that could safeguard the future. It’s not an impersonal text, in the sense that it’s not afraid to let in the emotional avalanche that the lived experience of crisis implies. What happens in and after the moment an emergency is declared? How is the decision made and an emergency response sustained?

Sarah’s book isn’t concerned with these questions in the abstract, it offers a detailed account of exactly how and why emergencies are declared, and with what effects. The main crisis, and it is really many crises, that Wiebe takes on in Hot Mess is, of course, the all-encompassing climate crisis. Focusing on the feeling of raising a child in the content of an approaching climate breakdown, Hot Mess lets the reader try to come to terms with the reality that “climate change,” Wiebe tells us, “affects all stages of gestation for mothers.”

We talk about her fieldwork for the book, her defiance of certain norms of academic comportment (especially during her difficult pregnancy), and the question of which medium could potentially function the most effectively for communicating the uncanny impressions left by climate impacts.

Sarah Marie Wiebe cares about care, insisting we fight climate change through love and reconnection

The Comrade Cast(Formerly Chatter in the Skull)is a show focused on delivering you deep and unconventional analysis for current events, on going crisis, and what the future of the ever shifting shifting tides of the geopolitical ocean will bring us.

This podcast features interviews with a variety of theorists, artists and activists from across the globe. It's guided by the search for radical solutions to crises that are inherent to colonial capitalism. To this end, I hope to keep facilitating conversations that bring together perspectives on the liberatory and transformative power of care, in particular.

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