RedFem

Special guest Shay Woulahan and RedFem's Hannah Berrelli discuss Let Women Speak's recent successful event in Belfast. They touch on issues of how sectarianism impacts feminist organising in Northern Ireland, address the presence of notorious unionist Jolene Bunting, and elaborate on the nature of anti-Irish racism in Belfast (including the "fuck the Pope" chants by the counter...

This episode  addresses the idea of prison abolition and the liberal so-called 'harm reduction' drug policies that are both considered radical in North America. We critique these from a socialist leftwing perspective, also touching on the legalisation of prostitution, and draw these together as forms of abandoning - and profiteering from - the most vulnerable in society, particularly wom...

This episode starts with the political witch-hunt against Donald Trump, what his arrest means for the 2024 election, MAGA communism, and what the decline of the dollar means for the global politics. We outline support for the BRICS system and a power shift towards a multi-polar world, against which China derangement syndrome and banning TikTok forms part of a backlash. Talk of America brings up di...

We discuss the last weeks GC events in Australia and New Zealand from a far-Left anti-fascist perspective. With the help of quotes from Adorno, Sartre, and Lenin, we think through some of the issues that have arisen within gender critical feminism around this question of working with the rightwing and the tarring of women as being 'associated' with the far-right. Is the term neo-Marxism...

We discuss whether feminists should work with right-wingers on single issue causes. We cover the historical ground of the last century of far-left political actors working with right-wingers within United Fronts and ask why feminists would be an exception? We later digress and chat casually about if breastfeeding is a form of labour and touch on the idea of whether male dominance is a social relat...

We discuss new Vice documentary The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate, out now on BBCiplayer. Tate is revealed as a serial rapist as the documentary interviews three of his victims, the CPS revealed as incompetent and complicit as decided to not prosecute despite three women coming forward, and we give our thoughts on how sinister Tate's lair in Bucharest is (all staff look uncomfortable!) Our ch...

The likely conclusive episode of a 3-part series analysing how the Left has been degraded into radical liberalism, postmodernism, and disorganisation. We discuss how the radlib Left purports to support women workers rights and yet wants a brothel in every office and trade union building. How the characteristics of being a socially and developmentally delayed 'loser', or embarrassment aro...

We discuss the disintegration of the UK Left from the 2010s onwards and how that decline led to space for postmodern ideas to take hold. The ensuing existential crisis over dwindling numbers led to an unwillingness to challenge postmodern ideas as they gained popularity. The Left began to liberalise as a reaction to its marginal status. It viewed Transgenderism opportunistically as a social strugg...

This episode recounts an unsettling weekend Jen experienced that features a character known as 'Peter the pedophile'. The discussion forays into the terrible things people often end up doing for money when young and poor, how hyper-sexual humour is a form of aggression, and how lesbians and gay men are not the same species. 

Some advice to apply when traveling abroad so that you, as a woman traveler, can avoid the things we've encountered. Male violence is an unfortunate global reality, one often demonstrated to women whilst traveling due to them being understood as an 'outsider' to that particular place, especially its male society. This discussion recounts several sexual assaults that took place to on...

We discuss Prince Harrys' new book 'Spare' and comment on its post-modern twist, dub it a Freudian field day, and remark on his hypocrisy regarding the Royal Family. We read it so you don't have to!

We put forward that femininity cannot just be assessed at the symbolic level of aesthetics and beauty practices, but requires a social-relations analysis as the infantilisation of women in service of patriarchy. We also discuss in the final third of the episode how the far-Left has a tradition of working with the rightwing, taking every available platform, and that activists should be defined by t...

We discuss the recent arrest of digital pimp Andrew Tate for sex trafficking and entrapment of women in Romania. We compare and contrast Tate with Jordan Peterson and put forward our analysis that Tate is a symptomatic figure of late capitalism and societal decay. Our discussion touches on multi-level marketing scams, financialisation, and a critique of contemporary heterosexual social relations. 

We review the final three episodes of Megan Markle and Prince Harry's Netflix docs-series and arrive at somewhat more sympathetic conclusions. Includes reference to Lacan's being or having the phallus! Freud's compulsion to repeat and some advice for the Royal duo: acknowledge your unearned wealth and find greater freedom in honesty... 

We discuss Catherine Liu's excellent book Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, but focus on the only chapter we have sharp criticism of entitled 'The PMC Has Sex'. Why? Because the chapter represents the failings many communists, Marxists, and socialists have when it comes to an analysis of sexual politics and unwillingness to engage with feminism. On...

We discuss when the Left hadn't lost its mind a decade ago. The Left was not beset by the identarianism or liberalism we see plaguing it today. Leftwing political organising existed in a way that seems impossible now in radical politics (at least in North America and the UK). The years we focus on are 2008 to 2014.  Part 2 coming soon where will discuss in further detail what happened after t...

Liberal denialism meets upper-crust emotional repression (and get married). The Meghan & Harry docuseries currently inflaming social media represents a culture clash between British upper class norms and West Coast culture. Celebrities are boring and should stop trying to not be. Validation seeking is unhealthy, including for Meghan Markle.

A discussion about Balenciaga's child BDSM photoshoot scandal leads to a wider conversation about pedophilia, fashion, art, and the elites. 

We discuss the debate around the fall of Roe vs. Wade, contraception, assumed heterosexuality within medicine, dating apps, and Dworkin's 'Brothel Model'. Hannah also picks her nose a great deal.

Our analysis of the closure of the Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for children when it was announced back in July 2022. The discussion then forays into a chat around why women choose to 'transition', then about radical feminism and why women - even inside feminism - are considered disloyal or viewed with suspicion if develop themselves subjectively as they ag...

Hannah speaks about her experience of getting kicked out of church last weekend due to standing beside - and standing up for - her gay male friend JD who was holding an LGB Alliance tote bag.

We discuss why the Left within the Global North are all too sympathetic to pedophiles and how the Left has never developed a sexual politics that can challenge the status-quo or patriarchy. This episode includes ideas and concepts from Marx, Dworkin, Freud, Foucault, Sartre, and more! And we also speak about our analysis of the SWP split of 2012 and collapse of the ISO years later.

Our initial reactions to the outcome of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial outcome the day it happened back in June 2021. Content warning: descriptions and discussion of rape.