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About Future on Fire and Victor's Children

André Goulet interviews David about his new book "Future On Fire" and the Victor's Children podcast. This episode is a re-post from the Harbinger Society Presents podcast.

On April 15, 2023 at 1:00 pm Eastern Time, the online magazine Midnight Sun and Haymarket Books present an online discussion: Fighting Capitalism's Ecological Death Cult. For more information and to RSVP:
www.haymarketbooks.org/events/528-fi…al-death-cult

Suggestions for episode topics or guests? Feel free to email victorschildren at gmail.com

The Socialism We Need

What kind of society is possible and worth fighting for? What would it take to begin a transition to socialism? What should people who yearn for liberation be doing today? James Graham, Saima Desai and John Clarke join David in a multi-generational conversation.

A few readings relevant to this episode:

A Revolutionary Way of Doing Politics Is Taking Shape in Sudan - New Politics
https://newpol.org/issue_post/a-revolutionary-way-of-doing-politics-is-taking-shape-in-sudan/

Revolution Means Smashing The State
https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/01/revolution-means-smashing-the-state/

A Letter From Canadian Comrades
https://socialistworker.org/2019/03/21/a-letter-from-canadian-comrades

The Most Important Strike in Years: the Education Workers Strike in Ontario

The law-defying strike by the 55, 000 workers in CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions in November 2022 was brief but arguably the most important strike in so-called Canada in almost two decades. Peter Hogarth talks about the background to the strike, how it unfolded, why it ended the way it did, and its lessons.

Some articles worth reading:

Peter Hogarth, "Who Killed Bill 28?"
https://springmag.ca/who-killed-bill-28-ontario-workers-and-the-threat-of-a-general-strike

Martin Lukacs and Emma Paling,
The inside story of how education workers beat back Doug Ford
https://breachmedia.ca/the-inside-story-of-how-education-workers-beat-back-doug-ford/

John Clarke, Doug Ford underestimated the power of workers—but so did union leaders
https://breachmedia.ca/doug-ford-underestimated-the-power-of-workersbut-so-did-union-leaders/

John Clarke, Beyond the Rituals of Class Compromise
https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/beyond-the-rituals-of-class-compromise/

Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change

On this episode, Sara Birrell, Saima Desai, James Hutt and David Camfield discuss ideas raised by David's Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change in an online book launch event hosted by Fiona Jeffries.

In Canada you can order the book from Fernwood Publishing:
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/future-on-fire

In the UK you can order it from PM Press's UK site:
https://pmpress.org.uk/product/future-on-fire/

Everywhere else, you can order it from PM Press in the US:
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1263

Sexual Violence, Feminism and Socialist Organizing

A discussion with three thoughtful socialists and feminists, Hazel, Jamie and Sheila, about feminism, the left and sexual violence. How can left activists get better at preventing and responding to sexual violence?


Some readings:

Articles by Hazel
https://www.rs21.org.uk/author/hazel-croft/

Why I Left Fightback by Jamie
https://jamiegraham.substack.com/p/why-i-left-fightback

Jeremy Appel on how the CPC leadership covered up sexual harassment and
expelled critics: What's going on with the Communist Party of Canada?
https://theorchard.substack.com/p/whats-going-on-with-the-communist

An article that briefly discusses how the "micro-party" model of socialist
organization promotes weak responses to oppressive actions by group
members, especially leaders: A letter from Canadian comrades
https://socialistworker.org/2019/03/21/a-letter-from-canadian-comrades

Ecosocialism and the Ecological Crisis

Faced with the worsening ecological crisis caused by capitalism, what's the ecosocialism we should aim for and what climate justice reforms should we fight for in the here and now? How should ecosocialists relate to degrowth politics? How should we respond to the immediate concerns of working-class people as the cost of living rises? A discussion of these and other questions with Sabrina Fernandes and Gareth Dale.

Some sources mentioned in the episode and other resources:

Sabrina Fernades' project Tese Onze
https://teseonze.com.br/

Gareth Dale, "Degrowth and the Green New Deal"
https://theecologist.org/2019/oct/28/degrowth-and-green-new-deal

"For an Ecosocialist Degrowth" coauthored by Sabrina Fernandes https://monthlyreview.org/2022/04/01/for-an-ecosocialist-degrowth/

Jack Copley, "Decarbonizing the Downturn: Addressing Climate Change in an Age of Stagnation"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10245294221120986

Julian Allwood, "Closing the Rhetoric-Action Gap on Climate Mitigation"
https://www.youtube0.com/watch?v=j1-laRQC0lQ&t=268s

Book launch, David Hughes on "Who Owns the Wind? Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frxyHxXstyo&t=269s

Climate and Capitalism
https://climateandcapitalism.com/

Order Future On Fire here:
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/future-on-fire (in Canada)
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1263 (everywhere else)