Show Notes
With the Your Party CEC elections in full swing, Jonas breaks down the current state of play in the party - and the gang despair at Your Party’s deteriorating culture of political debate. Would Your Party and the Greens be better if they were a little bit more like the Belgium Worker's Party (PTB), or the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)? Joe challenges the assumptions of the British left, arguing that the PTB and DSA are very different organisations, and we need to analyse them on their own merits.
Reading
Between Autonomy and Control: Comparing the Democratic Socialist of America and the Belgian Workers Party - Joe Todd
The Breaking of the English Working Class - Jonas Patrick Marvin
We Found Love in a Hopeless Place - Gabriel Wynatt
The History and Practice of Political Police in Britain - Tony Bunyan
Parks and Houses For the People - Johan Pries
Your Party's Infantile Disorder - Sam Joyce
CREDITS
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