Cosmopod

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

Amelia, Rudy and Matt sit down to discuss the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's political economy, with a focus on the distinct periods. We discuss the "information problem" and how it frames the discussion, before detailing the history of the DPRK's formation after Japanese colonialism and the Korean War. We then discuss the detailed planning period, its unraveling in the mid 80s, and the Arduous March period after the collapse of the USSR, before finishing off with the present periods of market reform and market elimination.
References:
Charles K. Armstrong - The North Korean revolution, 1945-1950
Ellen Brun, Jacques Hersch - Socialist Korea: a case study in the strategy of economic development
Liu Jinlong - Crying Forests: Political Ecology in the DPRK
Yang Mun-su - North Korea's Planned Economy and Marketization
Daniel Schwekendiek - A Socioeconomic History of North Korea
Phillip H. Park - History of Economic Management in North Korea
Zhihua Shen, Yafeng Xia - A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976

This is the audio of the Cosmostream of December 7th 2025 on Your Party with guests Bryce Bailey and Charlie Porter from the Democratic Socialists of Your Party. We cover the origins of Your Party, why the guests have chosen to intervene in YP and not the Greens and what kind of intervention they are performing and the kinds of politics they are looking towards. We also cover the contested process of formation of YP, the sects and factions involved, the intricacies of the founding conference and what kind of limitations it had as well as DYSP as a group and its principles.
Core reading:
Archie W commissioned by Novara media
Ewan T on DSYP's vision for Your Party
Ewan C on DSYP's structure
Kieran G on DSYP's strategy 
Founding conference

Background reading:
Corbyn argues against a centralised party after the 2024 general election in an Guardian article 
Guardian article on one of the first of Collective's secret conferences:
After Memorandum of Understanding takes over the party-building process from Collective, Andrew Feinstein and Jamie Driscoll outline their vision for a Party
The big TWT factions:
https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/democratic-socialists/
https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/the-democratic-bloc/ 
https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/organising-for-popular-power/ 
https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/trans-liberation-group/ 
https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/greater-manchester-left-caucus/

Socialist Unity Platform:
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1562/all-out-for-liverpool/
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1564/ideas-unity-action/
Inacio on the crowdediting process:
https://inacioinvita.substack.com/p/protecting-your-partys-crowdediting 
Founding Conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk0FjNyvfgI 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UrxGlrFRpg

Dónal Ó Coisdealbha analyzes the history and results of the management and production system (TPS) developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation, arguing that the cooperative effects the TPS had on Toyota's internal labor relations contain the seeds of a successful model of socialist industrial production. Ó Coisdealbha is the director of process control, smart and digital development at a factory owned by a multinational electrical equipment manufacturer who is currently co-authoring a book with Tom O'Brien on labour time planning. His blog can be found here.
 
Reading: Carlos Campos Jr.