Podcast appearances and mentions of Hilary Wainwright

History in Action Part 2 dives into the 1990s, focusing on the impact of the Cold War's end, the rise of neoliberalism, the emergence of the Alter-Globalization Movement, and the history of TNI's drugs and democracy programme. Key figures and activists explore significant shifts in global politics, the consolidation of U.S. imperial power, and the resistance of social movements: from the rise of progressive alternatives to the struggle against corporate power and neoliberal trade regimes. Narrator: Shaun Matsheza Interviews conducted by: Denis Burke, Daria Gorshenina and Shaun Matsheza Music: Aleksey Chistilin Interviews with: Susan George, Hilary Wainwright, Walden Bello, Martin Jelsma, Gonzalo Berrón, John Cavanagh, Achin Vanaik, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Jun Borras, Fiona Dove Archival audio with: John Berger, Isabel Letelier, Orlando Letelier, Eqbal Ahmad, Basker Vashee, Fred Halliday Find out more about TNI at tni.org Please consider making a contribution to support our vital work at tni.org/donate With thanks to the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui, alongside those focused on feminism in the global south, such as Veronica Gago. Showing the breadth of left feminism, as well as the themes and ideas that unite a genuinely diverse range of interviewees, the book is essential reading across arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in the key issue of gender in contemporary society. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

I 1976 lanserte arbeiderne ved britiske Lucas aerospace en omfattende plan for hvordan bedriften kunne gå fra å i stor grad levere flydeler til forsvaret, til å lage mer samfunnsnyttige produkter. Dette skjedde som et svar på ledelsens planer om nedbemanning. Den komplette planen, med forslag til 150 ulike produkter som kunne produseres, går under navnet Lucas-planen. I denne episoden hører vi Reidun Gjengedal snakke med forsker og aktivist Hilary Wainwright, som har skrevet bok om planen. I England finnes også den nye gruppen The New Lucas Plan, hvor vi har snakket vi Dave King.  Mens fra Norge har Håkon Edøy Hansen fra Rødt vist interesse for planen, og snakker om planen fra et norsk perspektiv. 

With special guest, Hilary Wainwright, not quite a lifelong Socialist, but almost, and co-editor of Red Pepper. And what a lovely conversation we had too! We discuss, Chris Packham, The Premiership, Red Pepper, The Late 60s, The Young Liberals and Revolutionary Socialism at Oxford University, The future of the Left, and much more. And not once did we rubbish the Labour Party (sadly, we ran out of time). If you enjoy listening to TTLL please subscribe, and please tell your friends about us. Thank you so much for your support.

Jonathan Gross researches and teaches in the department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London. In this specially repeated episode, Sophie Hope talks to him about the relationship between autobiography and cultural action, and the needs to explore memory and history as a means of making sense of one's own cultural politics. During the conversation they each discuss how they came to view cultural democracy as a meaningful idea and a useful tool, and what inspired them to do so. The conversation then broadens to include the work of Aristotle, Sheila Rowbottom, Lynn Segal and Hilary Wainwright. They then begin to ask whether we should see cultural democracy primarily as a kind of practice or as a demand for systemic change.

In this week's episode of Understanding TWT, we spoke to Red Pepper co-editor and co-founder Hilary Wainwright. Hilary spoke to us about the history of the ‘new left' from the Hungarian revolution of 1956, how the Soviet Union's domination of its bordering countries led many socialists to re-evaluate their understanding of Marx and relationship to the party and state, how TWT fits into and is informed by that history, and how the ideas of the new left continue to develop and change today.

Meagre food packages for kids on free school meals. A £22bn track and trace system that isn’t fit for purpose. And people asked to travel hundreds of miles for a Covid test. What do all of these things have in common? They’ve all been outsourced to the private sector. But why are these vital services being run by the private sector? Are the allegations of cronyism true? And who’s making money out of all this? Ayeisha is joined by New Statesman’s Britain editor, Anoosh Chakelian and David Hall, founder of the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich. For more on this area, you can listen to a previous episode we did with Cat Hobbs, director of We Own It campaign, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper magazine and Sahil Dutta from Goldsmiths University on Public Ownership: https://soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomicspodcast/public-ownership-20 ----- Researched by Margaret Welsh. Produced by Becky Malone. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! The Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org

As 2020 draws to a solitary close, many are struggling to locate the season's festive cheer. Luckily, the spirit of goodwill and merriment endures at TWT FM and in that giving vein, we are delighted to gift you, our dear listeners, a one-off, non-cancellable, tier-free, stocking-filled-to-the-brim-with-radicalism….TWT FM Christmas Special! In one sense, Christmas is a frenzy of rampant consumerism and excess, but the festive period also offers a brief respite from the endless churn of Capitalism - a short window of time where acts of community and reciprocity abound. A glimpse of the world we want. So settle down into your coziest chair, draped in your ugliest festive jumper with a mince pie to hand, for a classic Dickensian tale with a twenty-first century twist. We follow the fortunes of a notorious pandemic-profiteer, Mr Jeff Bezos, as he is haunted by the ghosts of a socialist Christmas past, present and future. Through his miserly eyes, we will rediscover the history of social solidarity that underpins the holiday in order to imagine, demand and build a Christmas transformed. This episode was produced by the TWT FM team with contributions from Jessica Thorne, Seth Wheeler, Alan Bradshaw, Jonathan Kesselman, Hilary Wainwright, Sophie Lewis, James Butler and Keir Milburn. Special thanks also to the 'A Christmas Carol Transformed' actors: Chloe Massey - Narrator. Enyi Okoronkwo - Jeff Bezos Norah Lopez Holden - Emily Cratchit and Alexa. Sam Swann - Bob Cratchit.

A recording from the 5th of May 2020, from the series “The Left Reflects on the Global Pandemic” by transform! Europe The United Kingdom has had a poor record in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Hilary Wainwright attributes this to two factors in particular: Firstly, the arrogance of Boris Johnson, who was very late to recognise the seriousness of the disease and implement a lockdown, and secondly, the unpreparedness of the UK’s health system. In fact, Britain under Johnson shares these two characteristics with the United States under Trump, which helps explain why the coronavirus pandemic has hit both of these countries so hard. In the fifth instalment of our podcast series, Wainwright criticizes the mainstream discourse, that the pandemic is in some way making all people equal. During the lockdown, for example, inequality among UK citizens was striking. Workers and the working class are far more exposed to the virus, especially in large cities such as London. They live in small apartments located in densely populated areas. They shop in crowded supermarkets, without being able to take adequate protective measures. Many of them – particularly the more precarious – had to continue to travel to work, mostly using the highly congested underground. The situation was completely different for more affluent people living in middle-class areas. Wainwright goes on to discuss, how the overwhelming issue of the pandemic, has left no space for debates regarding Brexit, neither in the general population nor within Labour. Despite its defeat in the election of Labour leadership, the Labour left (such as Corbyn, McDonell, Momentum, and The World Transformed) remained very active, intervening in the public arena with programmatic proposals for the post-coronavirus era. At the same time, Wainwright describes how people are open to militant and radical ideas due to the crisis. This includes: State interventions in the economy, with the goal of meeting the needs of the people and rather than the goals of markets. The need to increase the funding of the NHS and of the rail system, together with the reduction of air travel, and the search for more ecological forms of transportation. She hopes that the movements, the trade-unions and the left will be more successful in dealing with the impending deep recession than they were during 2008 crisis, where the response came at the expense of the working people and to the benefit of banks. Hilary Wainwright is British sociologist, political activist and socialist feminist. She is the editor of Red Pepper magazine and author of several books, such as “A New Politics from the Left”. Those who have following the series will also recognize the voices of Haris Golemis and Angelina Giannopoulou. Haris, who conducted the interview, is the Scientific and Strategic Advisor of transform! Europe and the Chief Editor of transform’s Yearbook. We once again have Angelina to thank for the moderation. She is a Political scientist and facilitator of Transform! Europe in the programme “Strategic Perspectives of the Radical Left and European Integration”. The Mosaik-Blog is delighted to collaborate on this podcast with transform! Europe, a network of 34 European organizations in 22 countries, active in the fields of political education and critical scientific analysis. The transform! network is the recognized political foundation of the Party of the European Left. After the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the series “The Left Reflects on the Global Pandemic” was launched, in which various befriended intellectuals were asked to share their reflections, assessments and proposals regarding the crisis. Over the following weeks, all editions of this series will continue to appear here on Mosaik-Podcast.

As a result of the economic downturn caused by Coronavirus, and with the government's furlough scheme winding down, we stand on the brink of mass joblessness. In this pilot episode of TWT FM, we unpack the function of unemployment under capitalism, hear from trade union organisers leading the fightback against redundancies, and discover how the left can push for a future beyond unemployment. TWT FM is a podcast from The World Transformed. This episode was produced by Matt Huxley, Sarah Vowden, Charlie Clarke, James Roadnight, Penny Grennan, Aron Keller and Sam Swann, with contributions from Keir Milburn, Will Stronge, Ellen Clifford, Andy Mitchell and Denise McKenna from Disabled People Against Cuts, Richard King, Tim Jones and Hilary Wainwright. Go to theworldtransformed.org to find the full TWT festival programme.

This episode dives into the scandalous origins of the war on drugs. Prior to 1914, drugs were widely available. Yet with each successive step of prohibition this past century, governments have lied to the public about the underlying reason for criminalizing drugs. The true story - one of political oppression, propaganda and disturbing corruption - must be told. Please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell your friends about the show. Thank you!***References:‘Joe Rogan Experience #1250 - Johann Hari’, The Joe Rogan Experience.‘Joe Rogan Experience #142 - Graham Hancock, Duncan Trussell’, The Joe Rogan Experience.‘The Truth About the War on Drugs - Graham Hancock’, London Real.'America’s War on Drugs', Season 1, Talos Films.‘A Brief History Of The War On Drugs’, NPR.‘Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs’, Johann Hari, 2015, Bloomsbury Publishing. Trebach, Arnold. 1982. The Heroin Solution. New Haven, CT: Yale University PressTreating Drug Problems: Volume 2: Commissioned Papers on Historical, Institutional, and Economic Contexts of Drug Treatment. ‘A Century of American Narcotic Policy’, David T. Courtwright, Treating Drug Problems: Volume 2: Commissioned Papers on Historical, Institutional, and Economic Contexts of Drug Treatment.‘The Eleusinian Mysteries: The Rites of Demeter’, Ancient History Encyclopedia, Joshua Mark. ‘The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs’, by Edward M. Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine, 1972.‘THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEADING INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL CONVENTIONS’, Jay Sinha, Law and Government Division, 21 February 2001.‘Dynamics of Intervention in the War on Drugs: The Buildup to the Harrison Act of 1914’, Audrey Redford & Benjamin Powell, The Independent Review, 2016.‘ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, PROHIBITION BEGAN IN EARNEST—AND WE’RE STILL PAYING FOR IT’, Maia Szalavitz, Pacific Standard.‘How the Myth of the ‘Negro Cocaine Fiend’ Helped Shape American Drug Policy’, Dr Carl Hart, The Nation.Galliher, John F., and Allynn Walker. “The Puzzle of the Social Origins of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.” Social Problems, vol. 24, no. 3, 1977, pp. 367–376. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/800089. Accessed 4 June 2020.‘An excess of democracy', Hilary Wainwright, Open Democracy.‘As Heroin Use Grows in U.S., Poppy Crops Thrive in Afghanistan’, Elizabeth Chuck, NBC.‘How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan’, Alfred W McCoy, The Guardian.'Psychedelic Salon #623 - “Timothy Leary Meets Jiminy Glick”', Psychedelic Salon.'Psychedelic Salon #533 - “The Social Virus of Political Correctness”', Psychedelic Salon.***Music: Julian AngelatosArtwork: Nerpa Mate

In this episode, we talk with historian and socialist-feminist Sheila Rowbotham about her own political and intellectual development. Rowbotham was a close friend of Edward and Dorothy Thompson, a participant in the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and a prominent political writer and historian. We also discuss Chapters 12 and 13: the different meanings of discipline in working-class life, the Irish presence, and class-struggle elections in ninteenth-century Westminster. References: Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, and Lynne Segal, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (https://books.google.com/books/about/Beyond_the_Fragments.html?id=OlYqAAAAYAAJ&source=kp_book_description) Sheila Rowbotham, Woman's Consciousness, Man's World (https://www.versobooks.com/books/1768-woman-s-consciousness-man-s-world) Sheila Rowbotham, Women, Resistance, and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World (https://www.versobooks.com/books/1558-women-resistance-and-revolution) Sheila Rowbotham, Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780904383560/hidden-from-history/) "How Science Can Tell If Your Great-Grandparents Were Strikebreakers" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/inquiring-minds-christine-kenneally/ Black Dwarf https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/black-dwarf/index.htm

Recording of TWT and Verso's webinar on 21.05.20 Leo Panitch and Hilary Wainwright discuss the 1970s new left's attempts to radicalise the Labour Party.

Hilary Wainwright and Mary Kaldor ... It seems almost everyone accepts there is a democratic crisis in Britain and Europe. But there is very little agreement what to do about it. For Brexiters satisfying the demand of the referendum in 2016 to leave the EU whatever the cost has become the catch-all solution to the country's democratic woes. Too many remainers, in contrast, deny there is even a problem with citizens participation today. In our latest podcast - recorded at a recent live audience event in London - hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper are joined by Hilary Wainwright and Mary Kaldor to discuss how we really 'take back control' in the twenty-first century.  The European Cultural Foundation supports this initiative as it is rethinking Europe as an open and democratic space.

Joining us to discuss her long history on the socialist left is Hilary Wainwright, founding member and co-editor of Red Pepper political magazine and fellow at the Transnational Institute. In this episode, which will be relevant for all leftists regardless of nationality, we discuss Wainwright’s history in the 1960’s women’s movement, the Bennite socialist left, and her attempts to democratize the Greater London Council in the 1980s. 

Wainwright’s latest book, A New Politics from the Left, focuses on doing socialist politics by way of a deep organizing model, which emphasizes building the capacities and self-activity of the masses over simply mobilizing voters. 

We discuss the notion of being “in and against the state” or what’s often referred to as the “inside-outside” strategy for democratic socialist transition. This is relevant for all socialist movements, from the Corbyn movement to the Bernie wave and beyond. 
 Check out Red Pepper here: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/ Find out more about her latest book: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+New+Politics+from+the+Left-p-9781509523634

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Public ownership is back on the agenda. Opinion polls show high levels of support for taking all kinds of things back into public hands, from the railways to water to energy, and the Labour party is committed to a vast expansion of public ownership. But if privatisation has failed, what kind of public ownership should replace it? As the critics of nationalisation are quick to say, British Rail wasn’t that great. What should be done differently this time? If these services were nationalised, would the state even know how to run them? And are there other ways of putting them back in public hands? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Cat Hobbs, director of We Own It campaign, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper magazine and fellow of the Transnational Institute, and Sahil Dutta, lecturer in political economy at Goldsmiths University. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! Produced by James Shield. Music this week is by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons licence. The award-winning Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the UK's only people powered think tank. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org

In this episode of –between the lines– author Hilary Wainwright speaks with IDS Director John Gaventa about her book A New Politics from the Left.Hilary argues that a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism requires a new politics for the left that comes from the bottom up, based on participatory democracy and the everyday knowledge and creativity of each individual. Political leadership should be about facilitation and partnership, not expert domination or paternalistic rule.Resources:Transcript: https://www.ids.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/4.-Hilary-Wainwright-transcription.pdfBook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Politics-Left-Radical-Futures/dp/1509523626John Gaventa: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/john-gaventa/This podcast is produced and edited by IDS Communications Coordinator, Sarah King: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/sarah-king/Music credit: Crypt of Insomnia/One Day in Africa (instrumental version)/Getty Images See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thomas Hanna, Cat Hobbs, Hilary Wainwright, Andrew Towers, Andrew Cumbers On every continent, activists and political leaders are transforming struggles to resist privatisation into campaigns to restore and expand public ownership. The Labour Party is no exception. For some however, public ownership still means nothing more than top-down control and loads of bureaucracy. By looking at examples from across the globe, this session will discuss how this needn't be the case, and what democratic forms of public ownership, with worker and community participation at their heart, might look like. Democracy Collaborative

Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper magazine and fellow of the Transnational Institute, has been a significant figure on the left of the Labour Movement since the heyday of the GLC. Her latest book A New Politics from the Left (Polity) reflects on the recent reinvigoration of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, and presents a grass-roots up vision of the future that is both profoundly radical and entirely practical. She was in conversation about her book, and the future of the left in Britain, with journalist, activist and author Melissa Benn, and Alex Nunns, author of The Candidate (OR Books). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With Ellie out of action, wafflers-in-chief Daniel and Edd discuss whether trade unions have a particular role to play in the struggle to prevent the planet becoming a charred husk (spoiler: they do). Verity Burgmann, co-author of ‘Green Bans, Red Union’, joins us to discuss the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation’s “green bans” of the 1970s, before Edd talks us through the history Lucas Aerospace Workers’ plan of 1976, and Daniel reminisces about his time campaign on a roundabout in support of the Vestas wind turbine factory workers’ occupation of 2009. Here are some links mentioned in the show, and a few extra ones: The new edition of ‘Green Bans, Red Union’ is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Bans-Red-Union-Saving/dp/1742235409/ref=nodl_ ‘Rocking the Foundations’, a film about the BLF, can be viewed here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-xkxU0wu8 The Lucas Plan 40th anniversary website is here: http://lucasplan.org.uk/ Hilary Wainwright and Dave Elliot’s book on the Lucas Plan can be purchased here: http://www.waterstonesmarketplace.com/Lucas-Plan-New-Trade-Unionism-in-the-Making-Hilary-Wainwright/book/14986886 The Workers’ Climate Action website (inactive since 2011, sadly) is online here: https://workersclimateaction.wordpress.com/. The WCA briefings on the BLF and Lucas are here: https://workersclimateaction.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/blf-briefing2.pdf and here: https://workersclimateaction.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/lucas-briefing.pdf Trade union activists may also find WCA’s ‘How to be an effective climate activist in your workplace’ briefing useful: https://workersclimateaction.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/how-to-be-an-effective-climate-activist-in-your-workplace/ For more on the Vestas struggle, Read Workers’ Liberty’s pamphlet ‘The Vestas Jobs Battle: How Wind Turbine Workers Became a Power’, here: http://www.workersliberty.org/system/files/vestas.pdf Paul Hampton’s ‘Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity: Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world’ is basically *the* book on the overall subject matter of this episode, and is available to buy here: https://www.crcpress.com/Workers-and-Trade-Unions-for-Climate-Solidarity-Tackling-climate-change/Hampton/p/book/9781138283633 And finally, check out the Nationalise the Big Six campaign, mentioned in the episode, here: https://nationalisethebigsix.com/

The General Election of June 2017, and the massive Labour surge under Jeremy Corbyn's socialist leadership, has provided a new sense of optimism for those hoping for an end to utilitarian approaches to culture and swingeing cuts to arts funding. This month, Juliet talks to Loraine Leeson, Hassan Mahamdallie and Hilary Wainwright about the concept of cultural democracy, the recent The World Transformed conference and the Arts for Labour initiative. What are Jeremy Corbyn's arts policies, and how are they informed by the anti-austerity movement? What has been learned from the Greater London Council's arts programmes of the 1980s, or the Attlee government's cultural policies? How did writers and thinkers such as William Morris, E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams establish a long British tradition of 'cultural democracy', and what can we take from them in the 21st century? WORKS REFERENCED: Campaign to save The Cinema Museum: www.cinemamuseum.org.uk 'A Creative Future for All' - https://www.policyforum.labour.org.uk/news/a-creative-future-for-all The Great Exhibition of the North - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43324069 The Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company - http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/history/companies/gay-sweatshop/ LORAINE LEESON, Art : Process : Change (2017) - https://www.routledge.com/Art--Process--Change-Inside-a-Socially-Situated-Practice/Leeson/p/book/9781138670631 KEN LOACH, The Spirit of '45 (2017) - http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-spirit-45 HASSAN MAHAMDALLIE on William Morris - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1996/isj2-071/mahamdallie.htm WILLIAM MORRIS, News from Nowhere (1890) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/may/17/guardian190-william-morris-news-from-nowhere HILARY WAINWRIGHT, A New Politics from the Left (2017) - https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/persuasive-points-on-new-politics-from-the-left

In a week where Swine Flu, 10 years of Devolution and Andy Murray dominate the news agenda; Stirling MP Anne McGuire, security expert Clive Fairweather and Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper join Lesley to work out what is really going on.