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Living the Dream after the Plebiscite and amongst the Alt-Right

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Oct 12 2018 04:12

The same-sex marriage plebiscite was an amazing victory against conservative forces in Australia. Yet most of the Left treat it as a horrible defeat. What's this all about and what impact does it have on radical politics in Australia? Also we chat about the alt-right in Australia. Living The Dream is an anticapitalist podcast from Brisbane host at The Word From Struggle Street.

Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme Ep 2

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Sep 28 2018 01:21

The second Living The Dream episode on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This time we chat about how it has impacted those working in the sector and the shape and dynamics of care work. Hosted at The Word From Struggle Street

Living The Dream wth the Communist Party of Australia and Indigenous Struggles during the 1920s and 1930s.

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Aug 22 2018 23:37

CPA Banner circa 1982 courtesy National Museum of Australia

What's the relationship between labour struggles against capitalism and Indigenous struggles against colonialism? How has Marxist and communist theory traditionally tried to understand this relationship? This episode of Living the Dream from The Word With Struggle Street examines these questions by looking at the Communist Party of Australia in the 1920s and 30s and its relationship, or lack there of, with Indigenous struggles.

Living The Dream with The Maritime Defence Committee during the 1998 Wharf Dispute

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Jul 10 2018 06:20

It's been 20 years since the MUA dispute. What went on and what lessons are there for class struggle today.
This is the latest episode of Living The Dream hosted by The Word From Struggle Street

Living The Dream in the time of #metoo Part 2

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Jun 28 2018 04:04

Why isn't consent a solution to gendered and sexual violence? What can we make of the legacy of 70s feminism? How does feminism force us to rethink power and politics? All this and more in Part 2 of our 2-part Living The Dream #metoo special from The Word From Struggle Street .

Living The Dream in the time of #metoo Part 1

Submitted by With Sober Senses on Jun 15 2018 04:26

#metoo has brought issues of sexual violence and gender to the forefront of public debate. But what's it all about? What's the relationship of #metoo to older feminist ideas and struggles over gendered violence and how has feminism engaged with questions of violence, crime and the state? Part 1 of a 2 part special from Living the Dream at The Word From Struggle Street

Skint 1.5 Smashed Avo

Submitted by With Sober Senses on May 24 2018 05:31

The smashed avo has become symbolic of a standard of living: the bundle of commodities that form the historically necessary level for the reproduction of a large swathe of the working class in the last 10 or 20 years, and which increasingly seems untenable in the future. Moralising about the spending choices of the young is thus part of a disciplinary manoeuvre aimed at increasing the acceptance for a lower standard of living: whether that lowering of standards of living happens through the apparently neutral processes of the capitalist mode of production, or from direct attacks from capitalists.