AntiCapitalist Radio Episode 16: UK and France Elections Special

A discussion on the UK and French elections featuring Simon Hannah, Rowan Fortune, and Jack Graham.

 

Topics include the collapse of the Tories after 14 years in power, the pros and cons of the NHS, transphobia in both Labour and Tory parties, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s emotional reaction, the rise of Starmer’s Labour and its majority without a mandate, Starmerism’s anti-left stance, the defeat of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally by the left-bloc in France’s National Assembly elections, gains by both the right and left in Britain, the roles of Farage’s Reform UK and Galloway’s Workers Party, the global rise of neo-fascism, the hollowing out of the political centre, and future prospects.


Art (51) Book Review (113) Books (114) Capitalism (65) China (77) Climate Emergency (97) Conservative Government (90) Conservative Party (45) COVID-19 (44) Economics (37) EcoSocialism (51) Elections (82) Europe (44) Fascism (54) Film (48) Film Review (61) France (69) Gaza (59) Imperialism (97) Israel (117) Italy (45) Keir Starmer (52) Labour Party (110) Long Read (42) Marxism (47) Palestine (143) pandemic (78) Protest (146) Russia (326) Solidarity (126) Statement (47) Trade Unionism (133) Ukraine (328) United States of America (124) War (360)


Rowan Fortune authored Writing Nowhere; edited the anthology of utopian short fiction Citizens of Nowhere; and contributed to the collaborative book System Crash. It writes on utopian imagination, revolutionary theory and trans* liberation.

Simon Hannah is a socialist, a union activist, and the author of A Party with Socialists in it: a history of the Labour Left, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: the fight to stop the poll tax, and System Crash: an activist guide to making revolution.

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