ACFM: Trip 25: Games
Have games taken over our inner and outer lives? The ACFM gang throw the dice to find out, with music from Super Mario and The Who.
Tag: Jeremy Gilbert
ACFM: Trip 24: Technology
Is technology a fundamental aspect of being human? On this wide-ranging Trip, the gang take on one of their biggest topics yet.
ACFM: Trip 22: Democracy
The gang find out what it means to be ruled by the people, with music from Crass and the Scratch Orchestra.
ACFM: Trip 21: Unity and Difference
Do we need to agree in order to win? The #ACFM gang consider the possibility of a united movement.
ACFM: Microdose: Organising for Revolution With Rodrigo Nunes
Keir and Jem thrash out the future of political organisation with author Rodrigo Nunes.
ACFM: Microdose: Revolution From Cromwell to Castro
The gang speed through several centuries of political upheaval to work out what makes a revolution.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 19: Space
What does space mean to the left? The gang go boldly, with music from Hawkwind and Gil-Scott Heron.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 18: Therapy
Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert get on the couch to ask if therapy has a place in collectivist politics.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 17: Solidarity
The gang explore the meaning of a much-used term with help from Nina Simone and The Special AKA.
Opinion: Ignore the Naysayers: Anti-Imperialism Will Be Central to the Socialism of the 2020s
by David Wearing
Some of the left are nervous about the perceived unpopularity of anti-imperialism undermining efforts to bring about socialism in the UK. They shouldn’t be, writes David Wearing: transnational solidarity isn’t just important, but increasingly common sense.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 16: the Long ‘90s
The one where the gang remember the end of history.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Kill the Bill
Does the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill pose a serious threat to movements on the left? The gang convene to discuss the politics of protest.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music
Jeremy Gilbert tunes into the politics of folk music, from communist troubadours to pastoral psychedelia.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 15: Folk
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert dig into the politics of folk, from island cults to progressive patriotism.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 14: Desire
The #ACFM gang explore the political power of desire, from the storming of the Capitol to the Corbyn cult.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 13: Crowds
With the pandemic keeping us in isolation, the crew return to discuss crowds. Are they forums for collective joy, or platforms for demagoguery?
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 12: The Cosmic Right
The crew discuss the rise of conspiratorial thinking within New Age, spiritual and 'wellness' communities, and the implications this has for the left.
The Absolute Corbyn: Challenges Ahead
by Jeremy Gilbert
In this edited extract from 'The Corbyn Effect' (ed. Mark Perryman), Jeremy Gilbert considers the diverse constituencies to be bridged both inside and outside the Labour party if Corbyn's project is to stand any chance of transcending neoliberalism.