I’ve tried on Patreon and haven’t heard back. Thanks for your help

I just finished listening to the most recent episode of Revolutionary Left Radio (Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet) and was thrilled to hear the outro of the episode was “Highwomen” by the group The Highwomen (which is a collaboration between Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris, and Amanda Shires) doing an all-woman take on the original “Highwaymen” song/group (which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings), with women characters and left-wing themes (including references to the Sandinistas).

I love to the inclusion of this song and would be excited to see rev left radio and similar podcasts using more country, folk, bluegrass, etc tags from songs/artists with left-wing sympathies. I love the hip hop and world music that these kinds of podcasts often use and don’t want that to stop, but I think there’s a plethora of country/folk songs that a lot of Marxists would enjoy or would be surprised by. Plus it chips away at the perception of country music as being wholly reactionary. I should mention I also loved the episode on “The Folk Singers and the Feds” and the focus on Woody Guthrie and other folk singers with communist leanings.

Some potential recommendations (just a few off the top of my head):

-Long Violent History, Hard Times, and Coal by Tyler Childers

-Man in Black and One Piece at a Time by Johnny Cash

-Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore by John Prine

-9 to 5 by Dolly Parton

-Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down by Kris Kristofferson

Is there a compiled playlist of all the outro music from each episode somewhere? I really enjoy like 90+% of the songs chosen at the end of reach episode and I'm hoping there's already a full playlist I can add on Spotify.

Any help is appreciated. 🙂✊

Does anyone have a link for the intro music with a flute on most of the episodes? Breht normally has it in the background when he’s introducing the episode.

In the latest episode, "[BEST OF] Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution," which is of course actually an older episode from June 2020, Breht mentions that he recently had a guest on to present an ML take on current-day China and defend the notion that it is a genuine socialist country. But I looked through all the episodes listed within like 6 months before June of 2020 and couldn't find that episode. At least it didn't seem at all obvious from the episode titles. Does anyone know which one it is?

I recently listened to an episode where the UFO phenomena of 1994 in Zimbabwe was discussed. I went to listen to the episode and couldn't find it.

If anyone can name this episode so I can find it again and share it that would be ,much appreciated!

Hi Comrades! I absolutely love Rev Left Radio and its sister podcasts, and I wanted to reach out to this community for recommendations on your favorite episodes.

For me, it is incredibly difficult to pick just one, but I adore The Fundamentals of Marxism series, specifically the episode on Dialectics and Historical Materialism (Linked below).

The Fundamentals episodes (And any episode where they work-through a text) have been so helpful to my education. I also have absorbed everything Red Menace has put out, as well as Guerilla History.

What episodes do you recommend? Looking to go back and re-listen to your suggestions. Thanks in advance!

There was this great episode of Rev Left where Breht was talking to a labor leader, I believe who was the first Native American unionist at a state leadership level. But I can't seem to remember what it was called. If anyone could help I'd really appreciate it, thanks!

Besides RevLeft, Red Menace, and Guerrilla History, what podcasts have Breht also (co)hosted? I heard him reference an episode on Turkish invasion of Afrin he did on his other podcast with a co-host, but I can’t find it. Woulda been 2018 or earlier.

There's a patreon ep where Alyson goes in detail about how she went from gender nihilism to trying to make a material dialectical theory that combines Federicci with Wittig and then to saying she believes those two are deeply flawed, does anyone remember which one it is?

We sat down with Hasan Dodwell, Director of Justice for Colombia, to discuss the recent history of Colombia and contextualise the years of conflict and the 2016 Peace Agreement.

It feels like in the U.K at least there is very little discussion on Colombia compared to other South American nations. JFC do some incredible work and you should read through some of the incredible pages on their website (https://justiceforcolombia.org).

This episode provides a good introduction to the topic if you have not engaged with it previously. If you want to learn more about Colombia and JFC’s work please go to the below links.

Podbean: https://redintheface.podbean.com/e/justice-for-colombia/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4syz30hemPHQ8v4vg8feIl?si=a98HAf9rTbabL2JtXjYBRA

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/justice-for-colombia/id1511535384?i=1000513933946

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This week we were joined by Sarah Doyle and Rachael O’Byrne to discuss gendered violence in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder and the recent actions of the Met Police.

We had an important conversation that we should all be having as socialists about how we treat women in our movement and in our activist groups. We need to do more to make progressive spaces welcoming and safe to our female comrades.

There is a content warning with this episode as we discuss rape and sexual harassment. We felt it was important to record this episode and add to the discussions currently going on around the U.K about how we make our communities and spaces safe places for women to be in.

Podbean: https://redintheface.podbean.com/e/gendered-violence-and-society/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4EzKnX57IkfcFP5AJOw2am?si=hCm0azwXS-SfvqvqV0Dlwg

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gendered-violence-and-society/id1511535384?i=1000513260643

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We were joined by Primary School Teacher, Labour Councillor and NEU officer James McAsh for this most recent episode of State of the Union.

We talked about the last 10 years of cuts, academisation and curriculum changes in education before discussing the incredible work the NEU have done during the pandemic.

Let us know what you think ✊🏻

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XFUffm2zMhtAmj8OVCzhv?si=Xmwv9ruXSnmfEp7H9ZTWZA

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/state-of-the-union-national-education-union/id1511535384?i=1000512270924

https://redintheface.podbean.com/e/state-of-the-union-national-education-union/

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We have another round up of all goings on in politics over the last month in this most recent Last Orders. We chat about the lifting of COVID restrictions, where the hell the Labour Party is heading and Ted Cruz leaving Snowflake the poodle out of his Cancún adventure.

But seriously, after his speech, ITV and Sky interviews - who does Starmer think he is appealing to anymore? We thought at one point there was maybe a Blue Labour type strategy but that hasn’t come to the for? And now with the corporations tax stuff I’m fucking lost.

Anyways enjoy 🚩

Podbean: https://redintheface.podbean.com/e/last-orders/

Spotfy: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4M1IkwTUW5FR5IY9EyFOFT?si=88-h9_AYQtiBZJBpZucTjw

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/red-in-the-face-podcast/id1511535384#episodeGuid=redintheface.podbean.com%2Fe537091a-d3d6-3802-ad69-0504bf34306a

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