Show #58 – General Strike?

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Donnacha DeLong

IWW General Strike poster

Donnacha DeLong presents his monthly show on The Circled A. The TUC congress voted last week to consider “the practicalities of a general strike”, a step forward from years of rejecting calls from some unions to call a general strike immediately. However, with union membership at its lowest level since the 1940s and largely concentrated in the public sector, it’s unlikely any big strike would actually be general. Becca Kirkpatrick from Solidarity Magazine (@solidaritymag) and Stuart from the Industrial Workers of the World discuss the prospects for a general strike in the UK and what unions need to do to get there.

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Show #57 Anarchism, Gender and Sexuality

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Loosey Parsuns

Chickpea from Dissident Island radio presents her monthly show on The Circled A. This episode she talks to academic, activist and yoga teacher Jamie Heckert on the subject of anarchism, gender and sexuality. The interview also features observations from radio producer and social geographer Anja Kanngieser. An edited version of this interview features on Dissident Island Radio (link to full show here: http://archive.org/details/DissidentIslandRadio-6July2012-Episode107) Backing tracks were taken from Ashley’s “Land of Dub” release from 2011, which can be found at the netlabel dubkey (http://dubkey.com/dubkey010.html).

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Show #56 The ATOS games

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Donnacha DeLong
DPAC protest against ATOS, Jan 2011

DPAC protest against ATOS, Jan 2011

The Olympics are over, but get ready for the ATOS Games. Timed to coincide with (but not disrupt) the Paralympic Games, the activist group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) have planned “five days of action against a company that’s sponsoring the Paralympics but wrecking disabled people’s lives.”

In advance of the action, Donnacha DeLong spoke to Andy from DPAC and Joe from UK Uncut, who are supporting the ATOS Games, to find out what the plans are and where the groups hope to go from there.

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Show #55 Ground Control

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Loosey Parsuns

Anna Minton talks about her book ‘Ground Control’, and on the show we focus on the London 2012 Olympics. Britain’s streets have been transformed by the construction of new property – but it’s owned by private corporations, designed for profit and watched over by CCTV.  Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls, gated developments – even the Olympic Park – led to ‘regeneration’, or have they intensified social divisions and made us more fearful of each other? It reveals the untested – and unwanted – urban planning that is changing not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust.

Listen Now: 24th July 2012 Ground Control

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Show #54 Global Women’s Strike (Part 1)

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Loosey Parsuns

Listen Now: 17th July 2012 Global Women’s Strike (Part 1)

Extra: An organiser from Oakland California

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Show #53 What’s going on in Ireland?

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Loosey Parsuns


The credit crunch and Eurozone crisis have hit Ireland very hard, but, unlike Spain, Italy and particularly Greece, there doesn’t appear to have been the same kind of fight-back against austerity on the emerald isle.

In the first of his regular monthly guest slots on the Circled A Show, Dubliner Donnacha DeLong talks to Gregor Kerr of the Workers Solidarity Movement and Mark Hoskins of Unlock NAMA about what is happening on the ground and if there’s a chance things will get more radical.

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Show #52 Dissident Island Radio

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Loosey Parsuns

Dissident Island Radio is a radical internet radio show broadcasting on the first and third Friday of every month from the London Action Resource Centre. They talk about about DIY radio like recently set up Catalyst Radio, which was born from a desire to create a UK wide radical radio network that collectively uses a single Internet platform for the streaming of live and pre-recorded radio content, presenting points of view generally diverging from those of the more established, and mainstream, media.

Listen Now: 26th June 2012 Dissident Island Radio

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Show #51 Film Maker Greg Hall

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Loosey Parsuns

Greg Hall is an Anarchist and a film maker who has accomplished a lot independently. He talks about his exciting new project titled ‘Commune’ which he is raising money for through sponsume, and also the film making industry and he proves you can do it alone. Here is where you can find out more; http://brokebutmakingfilms.wordpress.com/ and to give him some dosh to help him create ‘Commune’ sponser here. http://www.sponsume.com/project/communion It’ll be worth it. Lets help out as many fellow Anarchists out there! 🙂

Listen Now: 19th June 2012 Film Maker Greg Hall

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Show #50 John Sinclair & Jude Rawlins

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Loosey Parsuns

 

John Sinclair is an American poet from Detroit, one-time manager of the band MC5, and leader of the White Panther Party — a militantly anti-racist countercultural group of white socialists seeking to assist the Black Panthers in the Civil Rights movement — from November 1968 to July 1969.

Jude Rawlins is perhaps best known as lead singer and principle songwriter of London art-rock band Subterranean, whom he formed in 1992. As a teenager in the late 1980s he fronted notorious Midlands indie band Angel-head. He has toured all over the world, published four books, released two solo albums, directed a feature length film, worked with artists as diverse as Derek Jarman and Bjork, and even remixed Madonna. He is also the current chairman of the William Blake Society. He lives in East London and waves flags for no one.

Listen Now: 12th June 2012 John Sinclair&Jude Rawlins

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Show #49 Fuck The Jubilee!

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Loosey Parsuns

To mark 60 years of the Queen’s reign, the Diamond Jubilee The Circled A has on the show Patrick the executioner. For All those that want to hear the true nature of the head of State and the Empire. Those seriously effected by the cuts will not be coming together for the jubilee. We’ll be coming together with our communities in order to survive.

Listen Now: 5th June 2012 Jubilee Special

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