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  On the show this week we  are bursting at the seems with  guests from all across the country who are fighting against dodgy developers and trying to protect our ancient wild life.  We are joined by Claire Baker from Owlthrope field action Group, Rosie Pierson from Better Braintree Together and Marge Powner from Friends of Carrington Moss. Together they  form the Community Planning Alliance (@Com...

This week on the show we are joined by Dr Keston Perry. Keston is a lecturer in economics and political economy at University of West of England (UWE). We discuss in practical terms what reparations would mean, the historical racism embedded into Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and how a Green New Deal must be designed in that context, as well as the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution...

This episode was recorded on March 18th 2021 This show is ostensibly about environmental politics. The grinding friction between our natural world and the citizens who have been chosen to act on behalf of society. It is important to remember though, even with all the fantastic powers and creations of humanity, we are beholden to nature and to the physics that govern it.  The planet doesn't ca...

Far right politics invariably comes to the fore in conjunctures of deep crisis.  Since the financial crisis of 2007-8, far right parties and fascistic groups have grown in strength in Europe and across the rest of the world.  Parties ranging from Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Marine Le Pen's National Rally in France, and dictators like Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil demonize immigrants and mino...

On the show this week we are joined by Author and Journalist Paul Mason. Paul is a writer specialising in Labour politics and post capitalism. This week we discuss the fall out from the May elections and how the Labour party has to change to succeed nationally, the politics of the Green New Deal in the UK and how China fits in the equation when it comes to climate change and climate politics. Link...

 On the show this week we are joined by Helen Woodcock and Chris Walsh from the kindling trust (@kindlingtrust) a Farming Co-op based in Greater Manchester.  We discuss the project and how they want to improve farming for farmers and consumers, How industrialised farming is hurting farmers and building solidarity with farmers across the world.  Support the Kindling Farm here https://kindling.org.u...

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If you like the show tell your comrades! Find us on Twitter:@MCRGND_POD Insta: Manchestergndpod FB:MCRGNDPOD The political landscape of Britain has changed a lot in the last six years. You could be forgiven in early 2015 if you thought all the major parties were similar except for different coloured ties. With the surprise election of Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party that year, politics...

 a few audio glitches in this one,  damn you crappy broadband! I want broadband communism now! If you like the show tell your comrades! Find us on  Twitter:@MCRGND_POD Insta: Manchestergndpod FB:MCRGNDPOD We spend a lot of time on the podcast looking at the big picture; national carbon budgets, climate politics and so on. Even looking at Greater Manchester as a region sometimes can obscure some of...

This podcast was recorded on the 25th of February 2021, before the introduction of the Police, Crime, sentencing and Courts Bill and the subsequent protests. This week we are joined by Labour MP for Norwich South Clive Lewis ( @labourlewis). We discuss climate politics and the Labour Party,  how to save British democracy and  does the left need proportional representation to succeed?  shout outs J...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for a piece of breaking news. Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has announced that the city region will bring its bus network back under public control.  Finally Manchester will have the connected fair transport service it deserves!  It’s a huge win for Manchester’s communities and commuters, but most of all, it’s a victory for Better Buses GM...

Peaceful protest could be seen as the hallmark of political movements in the late 20th and early 21st century, causing disruption to everyday life with mass gathering and turning the political headwind through chants, crowds and banners. From the Iraq War protests in 2003 to the Extinction Rebellion direct actions of 2019 turning the other cheek and love thy neighbour have been core tenants around...

Keir Starmer had been enjoying a grace period. New characters gave the media new exciting things to talk about and with that came the praising of a forensic  leader who could make Labour an electoral contender again. That sheen is beginning to wear off,  the popular policies of Labour are not front and center anymore and there is worry on the left of the party that the radical eco socialist agenda...

Note: We interviewed Declan before the decision was taken by the Haldane society to censure Keir Starmer, we also had a few problems with Alexs mic! If you believe it's going to take a mass movement to stir humanity away from a climate disaster , you're probably going to want the Trade Union movement involved in that. Trade Unions have a long history of mobilising workers for their right...

If you like the show  let us know! Find us on  Twitter:@MCRGND_POD Insta: Manchestergndpod FB:MCRGNDPOD 2021 is hurtling in the same direction as 2020,  crisis upon crisis upon crisis. That is not even mentioning the underlying behemoth that is climate breakdown.  With the globe shadowed in unimaginable loss how are we to process it? to find the fight to carry on?  This week on the podcast we are...

If you like the show tell your comrades! Find us on  Twitter:@MCRGND_POD Insta: Manchestergndpod FB:MCRGNDPOD We're back! Welcome to 2021 where the pandemic carries on the points don't matter! As long as Climate breakdown keeps happening we will keep talking and this week we are joined by the people who are down on the front line.  Our guest this week is secretary of the Fire Brigades Un...

If you like the show tell your comrades! Find us on  Twitter:@MCRGND_POD Insta: Manchestergndpod FB:MCRGNDPOD It's our Christmas special! We shoot the merry breeze and look back at the shows of 2020, picking our favourite guest of this year and line up our dream guests for 2021.  Support the show

There is a sane man back in the White House, a Covid-19 vaccination is beginning to be rolled out and Bill Bailey won strictly, 2020 is really turning itself around. All that is left is to enact a Green New Deal that decarbonises the global powers and everything will be fine, right? As much as decarbonisation of the likes of the US and China is important, if getting to that point requires the glob...

**Apologies for some of the audio issues, Andrew had a night off** As the nights draw in and  the GND team snuggle up in our cozy, retrofitted, zero carbon  house of the future (powered entirely by the hot air supplied by Andrew) it's time for a catch up with the low traffic neighbourhood Santa Claus himself, Councillor Jon Burke of Hackney. This week we discuss the on going campaign to make...

If there is one thing to be said about the last 40 years of Neoliberalism it's this. You can put a price on everything. If it can be quantified then it can be priced and sold. Even when it comes to the existential threat of climate breakdown and biodiversity destruction the strategy has been give it a price tag and then someone in the system can pay for the damage.  Existence has turned into...

We find degrowth fascinating. For us as a show it really turns the world upside on what we should see a human progress. However, you'll be hard pressed to find its message front and center of any political parties commitments unlike the Green New Deal.  So are these ideas compatible? Can parties stand on a platform of Degrowth? Or is political hope too tied to the idea of growth? This week we...

For decades, we were told that individual action was the best way to tackle the climate crisis. If only we would stop using plastic bags and straws, while taking care to recycle, through behavioural change we could prevent climate change. Yet the rise of XR and the school climate strikers, and their clarion call “system change not climate change”, suggests climate breakdown is an economic crisis r...

www.retrofitgetinproject.com It's been a pretty rough year to put it mildly. A planet ravaged by a pandemic and incompetent governance being the order of the day, hope has been hard to find. Politics has been listless at best. But being a member of the Labour Party isn't about waiting around for a CLP to tell you to go canvassing, it's not about waiting for a just government it&apos...

Note: This episode was recorded before the results of the U.S election were published.  How do we define the success of a city? Or a country? Or human civilisation all together? The last 60 years we've been tied to GDP, growth, trade surpluses, amounts of debt, the strength of currency. Economic strength has been the barometer for the majority of the world to look to when we want to know how...

As a blanket statement, Left politics is about establishing and maintaining mass movements, thousands hopefully millions of people into a cohesive group to fight back against concentration of power in the world.  At the same time left wing politics is classically factious with splinter groups and offshoots starting regularly.  Looking into a different sphere in 2011, 59 million people saw them sel...