WeAreMany.org: Recently posted audio

Latest Episodes:

Queer and Trans (Counter)Cultural Marxism Jan 17, 2020

Show notes

Queer and Trans (Counter)Cultural Marxism Jordy Cummings Jules Joanne Gleeson Omnia Sol Anja Weiser Flower Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time LGBT

This panel brings together Red Wedge, the only English language Marxist journal with a mission of engaging cultural production as a whole, and the Leftovers communist discussion group. Approaching its eighth anniversary, Red Wedge Magazine makes it a point, as goes our slogan, to “rekindle the revolutionary imagination”, towards what we refer to as a Popular Avant-Garde.

What Would Happen If Bernie Won?: Strategic Opportunities and Challenges for Social Democracy Today Jan 17, 2020

Show notes

What Would Happen If Bernie Won? Strategic Opportunities and Challenges for Social Democracy Today Meagan Day Nantina Vgontzas Kate Doyle Griffiths Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time U.S. Politics

The idea of social democracy is regaining popularity in the capitalist core, finding mass expression in two of its most liberalized economies through the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn. In the US, this electoral insurgency has been matched by an even more unexpected growth of the socialist movement. This fledgling Left is faced with enormous opportunities and challenges.

Opioids, Unions, and the Socialist Project: Interrogating Connections, Strategizing Activism Jan 17, 2020

Show notes

Opioids, Unions, and the Socialist Project Interrogating Connections, Strategizing Activism Honoria Guarino Peter Ikeler Samuel Friedman Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Labor & Unions

In 2017, opioid overdoses claimed 49,068 lives in the US. This epidemic now surpasses the mortality of the HIV/AIDS crisis at its peak, annual deaths by car accident, suicide, gun violence or chronic kidney disease. Death by opioid also accounts for two thirds of all US overdose deaths, which totaled 72,000 in 2017.

Labor and the Fight for Single Payer Healthcare Jan 17, 2020

Show notes

Labor and the Fight for Single Payer Healthcare Sean Petty Laura Gabby Jeff Mikkelson Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Healthcare

Academic Workers: Worker-Student Solidarity Jan 17, 2020

Show notes

Academic Workers Worker-Student Solidarity Amelia Horgan Edward Remus Sara Swerdlyk Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Labor & Unions

New forms of disciplining at work, and new disciplinary forms of work in the academy, are made invisible by the inability to understand academic work as a form of work.
—Amelia Horgan

One episode in the failure of the New Left to leave a political party for socialism behind
—Edward Remus

Gestational Labor Pains: A Discussion of Sophie Lewis's "Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family" Jan 17, 2020

Show notes

Gestational Labor Pains A Discussion of Sophie Lewis's "Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family" Sophie Lewis Jules Joanne Gleeson Natasha Lennard Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Women

A panel on social reproduction, gestation as labor, family abolition, and struggles for reproductive justice, and sex worker rights.

The surrogacy industry is worth over 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. Should it be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you?

Subjectivity and Strategy Against Accursed Austerity Jan 17, 2020

Show notes

Subjectivity and Strategy Against Accursed Austerity Bruno Gulli Despina Lalaki Chris Knight Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism

An examination of the possible ways that new political subjectivities can be conceived and created at the present moment of capitalist austerity, democratic decay, and ideological malaise. In particular, questions of trans-individuation, counter-hegemony, and ecological demands are addressed.