Trademark Belfast

A discussion about the history and the potential of organised labour in Ireland and Britain with guest Alex Gordon, train driver, former president  of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Worker's Union (RMT) and Trustee of the Marx Memorial Library.  Also with the Seán Byers and Stiofán Ó Nualláin of Trademark Belfast. https://www.rmt.org.uk/home/ https://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/

Talking with Dr Paul O Connell of SOAS London who suggests that if we are to  rise up and break through the crust of the earth and overthrow this system then  we need to embrace the notion of serious, hard, underground, messy, long-term political education.  

Trademark is today joined by Dr Steve Baker, former shop steward in the Transport and general Workers Union, now Lecturer in Film and TV at the University of Ulster to talk about all things hegemonic....

2008 - 2020 The  last in our current series that takes us beyond the Global Financial Crash to look at the lies behind austerity, quantitative easing, privatization and the reconstitution of class power.

Trademark talks to Emma Clancy, advisor to Die Linke (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament about the EUs 'response' to the biggest global crisis since.....ever.... More from Emma here: https://emmaclancy.com/ https://irishbroadleft.com/ https://www.guengl.eu/the-reviled-stability-growth-pact-must-be-ditched/

A discussion on the characteristics of neo-liberal capitalism, the 'enemy' within, the myth of the small state, the dominance of finance capital and the Global  Financial Crash of 2008. 

Talking pandemics, austerity 2.0, government formation talks in the Republic of Ireland, youth radicalism & resistance, building a movement. {Conor McCabe, Author of  'Sins of the Father, Tracing the decisions that shaped the Irish economy',  an economic history of the free state,  the post crash austerity programme, and the liquidation of IBRC/Anglo..........and author of 'Money',  a book which s...

The End of Bretton Woods, Chile 9/11, the neo-liberal turn and Thatcher!

The return of Comrade Professor John Barry of Queen's University Belfast talking with Seán Byers and Stiofáin Ó Nualláin about the Just Transition, Green New Deal, Modern Monetary Theory, Community Wealth Building (and the EU.....)

The Golden Period of Capitalism, the Welfare Compromise and the historical 'blip'  that was 'social democracy'. 

Trademark Belfast on the origins and importance of May Day (with drink) 

Not a description of the participants but rather a series of talks between Trademark and friend and comrade John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy at Queen's University Belfast addressing the dangers and opportunities on the current crisis.

The Crash, the  Depression,  The Dust Bowl, The New Deal and how John Wayne won World War 2. (or how the Soviet Union out-produced Nazi Germany and crushed them at the Battle of Kursk)  Historical Capitalism Part 4 John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of 1929 (1955) Adrian Grant, Socialist Republicanism in Ireland, 1909-1936 (2012) Mark Harrison, ‘Resource mobilization for World War II: the U.S...

Mel Corry of Trademark talking with: Michala Lafferty Trade Union official with USDAW  - The retail workers union,   Alice McLarnon of the Belfast Cleaning Society - A Worker's Cooperative, and  Jo McDonnell - Frontline Health Worker

Third installment of a wander through the history of capitalism taking in Fordist Mass production, the Bolshevik Revolution and The Crash of 1929. Historical Capitalism Part 3 Jacobin Special 1916 Edition, Between The Risings (2016), https://jacobinmag.com/issue/between-the-risings James Connolly, ‘The Coming Revolt in India’ (1908), https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1908/01/india1.htm Jam...

Talking through the impact and implications of the global pandemic. 

A second installment of our discussion on historical capitalism and why we teach it.  Historical Capitalism Part 2 Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England (1844/45), https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/condition-working-class-england.pdf Christopher Hill, Reformation to Industrial Revolution (1990) Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Presen...

Trademark punters talking political economy, historical capitalism and pandemics. Podcast reading list Historical Capitalism Part 1 Friedrich Engels, The Peasant War in Germany (1850), https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/index.htm Neil Faulkner, A Marxist History of the World (2013), Chapter 6 Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Ac...

Talking in a wee state of shock about the seismic impact of Sinn Fein's electoral surge in the free state. 

Brexit ramblings, don't have a canary...

Three worker coops discuss cooperatives - Trademark, Belfast Cleaning Society and the Creative Workers Coop

Staff Christmas do chat about the elections, trigger warning, bad language, content warning, lefty ramblings

As part of Community Relations Week https://www.community-relations.org.uk/we hosted a panel discussion on ‘Youth Organising against Sectarianism’  with Conal Matthews of the Connolly Youth Movement www.cym.ie , Cllr Fiona Ferguson of People Before Profit www.pbp.ie and Christopher Stewart of the Socialist Party www.socialistparty.ie, the event was chaired by Ruairí Lennon.

In partnership with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation www.brexitblog-rosalux.eu a panel debate with Clare Bailey GPNI, Tommy McKearney EXPAC, Deirdre Hargey Sinn Féin, Patricia McKenna Former MEP. 

First in a series of discussions on this uplifting topic