Life of the Party

In this week's episode, Joe offers us insights into Zack Polanski's burgeoning campaign for a seat at the parliamentary table. Meanwhile, Shanice dissects the dynamics within contemporary capitalism's information ecosystems. In the context of the gut-wrenching death of Jason Arday, your hosts ask what struggle and contestation looks like when information is organised within an increasingly powerful, and malign, attention economy. READINGS WING - Worlds Apart: Women Under Immigration Law DSA Program - Workers Deserve More! Amelia Horgan - Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism THE LIFE OF THE PARTY CADRE Noor, Liam Miller, Neil Rogall, Fraser Amos CREDITS Hosted by Shanice McBean, Jonas Marvin and Joe Todd. Edited by Marcus Berdaut⁠⁠⁠⁠. Design by Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.co.uk Music by Benjamin Tissot / 9INTLNTLWTYTDKVN After Hours Music by Marcus P / MADSQ4HJPOYFTZ1T Become a supporter: patreon.com/LifeoftheParty Follow us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠This is an Ampersounds production. ⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe and Jonas reflect on their recent trip to France to take part in the annual festival of Jean-Luc Melenchon’s radical left party, La France Insoumise, while Shanice offers some reflections on the enduring challenge presented to socialist strategy by nationalism and the nation-state. READINGS Kate Fox - Watching the English Satnam Virdee - Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys CREDITS Hosted by Shanice McBean, Jonas Marvin and Joe Todd. Edited by Marcus Berdaut⁠⁠⁠⁠. Design by Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.co.uk Music by Benjamin Tissot / 9INTLNTLWTYTDKVN After Hours Music by Marcus P / MADSQ4HJPOYFTZ1T Become a supporter: patreon.com/LifeoftheParty Follow us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠This is an Ampersounds production. ⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are on a summer break so this week you are getting a special preview of our brand new spin-off show, After Hours. In our very first episode of After Hours, Jonas, Joe and Shanice breakdown a recent report from the National Centre for Social Research, investigating what it says about the average Reform voter and what makes this emerging radical right coalition tick. CREDITS Hosted by Shanice McBean, Jonas Marvin and Joe Todd. Edited by Marcus Berdaut⁠⁠⁠⁠. Design by Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.co.uk Music by Benjamin Tissot / 9INTLNTLWTYTDKVN After Hours Music by Marcus P / MADSQ4HJPOYFTZ1T Become a supporter: patreon.com/LifeoftheParty Follow us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠This is an Ampersounds production. ⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe breaks down the Greater Manchester mayoral race and argues that poor candidate selection and even worse political strategy had a significant role to play in the Greens’ bad showing. While Jonas then offers us some thoughts on the contemporary challenges to reaching the Good Life, provoking a deeper conversation on how the internet and the attention economy are harming our collective bonds. READINGS John Trickett - The End of Social Democracy ⁠Christopher Nolan - The Odyssey Jonas Patrick Marvin - The Breaking of the English Working Class CREDITS Hosted by Shanice McBean, Jonas Marvin and Joe Todd. Edited by Marcus Berdaut⁠⁠. Design by Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.co.uk Music by Benjamin Tissot / 9INTLNTLWTYTDKVN After Hours Music by Marcus P / MADSQ4HJPOYFTZ1T Become a supporter: ⁠lifeoftheparty.uk⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠. This is an Ampersounds production. CREDITS Hosted by Shanice McBean, Jonas Marvin and Joe Todd. Edited by Marcus Berdaut⁠⁠⁠⁠. Design by Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.co.uk Music by Benjamin Tissot / 9INTLNTLWTYTDKVN After Hours Music by Marcus P / MADSQ4HJPOYFTZ1T Become a supporter: patreon.com/LifeoftheParty Follow us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠This is an Ampersounds production. ⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode, Jonas takes us through the latest wave of machinations within the Labour Party, arguing that Andy Burnham’s strategy is neither radical nor realistic. Afterwards, Joe asks some fundamental questions of eco socialist strategy, pondering to what extent we could mitigate the climate crisis and what vision of eco socialism is possible on a burning planet. READINGS C.L.R. James - The Black Jacobins Erik Olin Wright - How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century China Miéville - Embassytown CREDITS Hosted by Shanice McBean, Jonas Marvin and Joe Todd. Edited by Marcus Berdaut for ⁠Ampersounds Productions⁠. Design by Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.co.uk Music by Benjamin Tissot / 9INTLNTLWTYTDKVN After Hours Music by Marcus P / MADSQ4HJPOYFTZ1T Become a supporter: lifeoftheparty.uk Follow us on Instagram. This is an Ampersounds production. CREDITS Hosted by Shanice McBean, Jonas Marvin and Joe Todd. Edited by Marcus Berdaut⁠⁠⁠⁠. Design by Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.co.uk Music by Benjamin Tissot / 9INTLNTLWTYTDKVN After Hours Music by Marcus P / MADSQ4HJPOYFTZ1T Become a supporter: patreon.com/LifeoftheParty Follow us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠This is an Ampersounds production. ⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.