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Charlie and Bryce rejoin Donald and Jack for a recap on what has transpired since the Your Party founding conference. We discuss the recent local elections, which show massive losses for Labor and gains for Reform and Greens. Then we go into the challenges around the formation of Your Party, divided between a grassroots left and Corbynism. Was this project a complete failure? Is there any hope that it can be salvaged and the project of building a principled mass socialist party carried forward?

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Matt and Rudy join RK to discuss several facets of the electric grid. We talk about the USSR's and China's attempts at electrification, how a modern grid looks like, the current US grid and its governing authorities, and a discussion on possible futures for electricity.
References:

RK's thoughts con rural cooperatives: https://jnanayuddha.wordpress.com/2022/08/16/reflections-on-rural-electric-cooperatives-and-socialist-organizing/
Matt T. Huber & Fred Stafford's articles: Socialist Politics and the Electricity Grid, The Utility of Utilities and Won't Somebody Please Think of the Grid?
Further recommendations, National:

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke, 2016
Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States by Leah Stokes, 2020
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas & Electric, and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine Blunt, 2022
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet by Brett Christophers, 2024
International:
The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba by Gustav Cederlof, 2023
Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955 by Ying Jia Tan, 2021 
Sinews of Power: The Politics of the State Grid Corporation of China by Yi-chong Xu, 2017
Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development by Sunila S. Kale, 2014
The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 by Jonathan Coopersmith, 1992
Electrical Palestine: Capitalism and Technology From Empire to Nation by Fredrik Meiton, 2019

Ira and Rudy join renowned geographer David Harvey for a chat on his pedagogy and his theories of economics, neoliberalism and imperialism.

Aliyah and Cliff sit down with Oliver Larkin, who's running for US Congress from Florida's District 23 with revolutionary ambitions such as unseating Jared Moskowitz, abolishing the Electoral College, and Finishing Reconstruction.

Brage, Mikael and Rudy sit down to talk about Scandinavian social democracy, with a focus on Norway and Sweden. We discuss the periodization of social democracy, starting from the 1905 independence of Norway, through the first World War period, the rise of social democracy in the interwar period, the golden years and the unraveling. We discuss why social democracy was able to take hold in Scandinavia through several historic compromises, what the economics of the countries were, the limits of the politics and how the parties tried to transcend these limits, before concluding with the unraveling of the politics in the 80s.
Bibliography:
G. Esping-Andersen - Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power
W. Korpi - The Democratic Class Struggle
K. Ostbjerg - Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy
J. Pontusson - The Limits of Social Democracy: Investment Politics in Sweden
M. Rasmussen, C. H. Knutsen - Reforming to Survive: The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies
F. Sejersted, M. Adams - The Age of Social Democracy