Simon Hannah

AntiCapitalist Radio

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Podcast from Anticapitalist Resistance, a revolutionary socialist organisation based in England and Wales. Analysis and commentary on everything from politics, economics, social issues and philosophy. Also fighting in the front line of the culture war on the anti-Nazi side.

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Simon Hannah

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Episode 6 - Ian Parker on Stalinist Realism and Open Communism 02.02.2023 49:24

Ian Parker, a prominent psychologist and psychoanalyst, discusses his latest book Stalinist Realism and Open Communism, recently published by Resistance Books.   For a review of his book please visit https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/20788_stalinist-realism-and-open-communism-malignant-mirror-or-free-association-by-ian-parker-reviewed-by-nick-malherbe/  You can read read part...

Episode 5 - The Working Class #1 05.01.2023 35:40

Does the working class still exist and if it does does it even matter any more? Rowan and Simon discuss the way capitalism creates a working class and the battle for class conciousness against capital. They talk about the role of working class agency in struggling for socialism and the contradictions within capitalism that means it will always fail to provide a good life for all people. 

Episode 4 - The RIght to Food 14.12.2022 38:13

This epsode features an interview with Dr Sharon Noonan-Gunning (@DrSharonNG) from the Right to Food Campaign. We discuss the idea of how a right to food might work, the problems of achieving this under captialism and how decommodification of food might happen under socialism.

Episode 3 - Neil Faulkner / Brazil 09.11.2022 43:37

This episode has one of the last speeches that Neil Faulkner gave before he sadly passed away earlier this year from pancreatic cancer. Neil gives his analysis on the world situation and the contradiction developing within global politics in light of creeping fascism and global warming. We also have an exclusive interview with Julia Câmara, a socialist activist from Brazil on the situation after L...

Anticapitalist Radio - Episode 2 - Tories in meltdown 31.10.2022 32:55

A podcast version of a recent Anticapitalist Resistance meeting with Dave Kellaway discussing the ongoing crisis of the Conservative Party as one of the most successful capitalist electoral parties slumps in the polls as a declining economic situation leads to bitter faction fighting 

Anticapitalist Radio - Episode 1 31.10.2022 46:56

In response to a recent Youtube Video by Owen Jones, Rowan Fortune and Simon Hannah discuss whether a left Labour government would actually be able to avoid financial markets trying to bring it down in a similar way to how Liz Truss was evicted from 10 Downing Street after 44 days. 