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Life of the Party takes you inside the debates, personalities and politics shaping the new left party in the UK.
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26: Imagined Communities: Should We Embrace the Nation? (opens the original)
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Joe and Jonas reflect on their recent trip to France to take part in the annual festival of Jean-Luc Melenchon’s radical left party, La France Insoumise, while Shanice offers some reflections on the enduring challenge presented to socialist strategy by nationalism and the nation-state. READINGS Kate Fox - Watching the English Satnam Virdee - Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys CREDITS Hosted by Shanice McBean, Jonas Marvin and Joe Todd. Edited by Marcus B
After Hours Preview: Who Are Reform Voters? (opens the original)
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We are on a summer break so this week you are getting a special preview of our brand new spin-off show, After Hours. In our very first episode of After Hours, Jonas, Joe and Shanice breakdown a recent report from the National Centre for Social Research, investigating what it says about the average Reform voter and what makes this emerging radical right coalition tick. CREDITS Hosted by Shanice McBean, Jonas Marvin and Joe Todd. Edited by Marcus Berdaut . Design by Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.c
25: Talkin' About The Good Life (opens the original)
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Joe breaks down the Greater Manchester mayoral race and argues that poor candidate selection and even worse political strategy had a significant role to play in the Greens’ bad showing. While Jonas then offers us some thoughts on the contemporary challenges to reaching the Good Life, provoking a deeper conversation on how the internet and the attention economy are harming our collective bonds. READINGS John Trickett - The End of Social Democracy Christopher Nolan - The Odyssey Jonas Patrick Mar
24: Cruel Optimism: Can Ecosocialism Stop the Climate Crisis? (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Jonas takes us through the latest wave of machinations within the Labour Party, arguing that Andy Burnham’s strategy is neither radical nor realistic. Afterwards, Joe asks some fundamental questions of eco socialist strategy, pondering to what extent we could mitigate the climate crisis and what vision of eco socialism is possible on a burning planet. READINGS C.L.R. James - The Black Jacobins Erik Olin Wright - How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century Chin
23: Immigration: Is the Left Getting It Right? (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Joe raises doubts about the Green Party's choice of candidate in the Manchester mayoralty - spurring wider questions about leadership on the left. After discussing the Green Party's proposals for internal democratic reform, your hosts zoom out to discuss politics' most significant wedge issue: immigration. Shanice opens by critiquing the left's go to arguments, proposing an alternative lens for viewing the critical yet divisive immigration debate. READINGS Joshua Virasami
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