What we’re reading :
We talk with Sujatha Fernades about Cuba after the Pink Tide. Sujatha Fernandes teaches political economy and sociology at the University of Sydney. She is the author of several books, including Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke University Press, 2006) and Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2010). Her latest book is Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford University Press, 2017). She is currently completing a collection of essays entitled The Cuban Hustle.
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We talk with Jeff Schuhrke about how grad workers at UCI staged their first-ever strike…and won! Jeff Schuhrke is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the co-president of the Graduate Employees Organization, AFT Local 6297.
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We talk with Amy Halpern-Laff and Jon Moscow about their exciting new podcast Ethical Schools. Amy and Jon are the co-executive directors of Ethics in Education Network. Together they edit the newsletter, coordinate professional development services, and host the podcast. You can find them on social media or at the park with their dogs.
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“A spectre takes on solid form and haunts the world, before conjuring itself out of existence.” - Tony Wood
What we’re reading :
Bastani, A. (2019) Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto. Verso.
This week we’re reading Fully Automated Luxury Communism, a manifesto by Aaron Bastani that outlines a radical vision in which automation and technological advances, by transforming the nature of work and production, will provide the basis for the founding of a new global society based on social justice. These transformations that he argues constitute the “Third Disruption” will not just ensure world’s survival, but the creation of a new world of social justice with “limitless public services and consumer commodities [...] free or affordable to all.” Further reading : Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani – a manifesto for the future
We speak with Stephanie Reist about the search for Marielle Franco’s killers one year after her death. We also discuss the relationship between the state and organized crime in Brazil, and how political life has changed under the Bolsonaro regime. Stephanie Reist is a freelance writer and researcher based in Rio de Janeiro. She received her PhD in Latin American cultural studies from Duke University and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in education policy at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Multidisciplinary Institute. Her research focuses on race and public policy in urban peripheries.
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We speak with Luis Angosto-Ferrández about the battle over gold and diamonds in the Gran Sabana region. Luis Angosto-Ferrández is a senior lecturer in Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Sydney. He is author of Venezuela Reframed: Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and Socialisms of the Twenty First Century, editor of Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America: Venezuela and the International Politics of Discontent and co-editor of The Politics of Identity in Latin American Censuses.
Gran Sabana Region
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In light of the European Parliamentary Elections that have taken place over the course of the past three days (results of which will be announced this evening), this edition of A Weekly Correction will focus exclusively on the European Union — its policies, legislative bodies, and the future challenges it will face. The articles we have round up offer widely divergent perspectives on the institution, namely among the Left, demonstrating the complexity and nuance of the subject. From visions that see the EU as necessary for a transnational working-class movement, to those that criticise it for its neoliberal policies and austerity, these articles help provide a basis for thoroughly understanding the implications of the election outcomes (as well as an understanding of the future of the EU more generally).
We speak with Stephan Barton about rent control, why social housing is preferable to public housing, and how affordable cities are not Utopian dreams! Stephen Barton was the former director of the City of Berkeley Housing Department and former deputy director of the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Program.
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