Mandatory Redistribution Party

The Northern Independence Party (feat. Philip Proudfoot) | 062

Jack talks to Philip Proudfoot founder of the Northern Independence Party, the new democratic socialist party founded in 2020 to fight the iniquities of the north/south divide, pointing a gravy-soaked finger at the South and saying “no, YOU’RE England.”
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Antonin Dvorjak’s New World Symphony. 
The Northern Independence Party website: https://www.freethenorth.co.uk/

One Neat Hack | 061

If you could go back in time, who would you kill? If an AI is going to inevitably wipe out humanity, should you devote your life to creating it? Sean and Jack explore the ethical and practical quandaries of leftist time travel and explore why so many people look for solutions to complex human problems with one neat hack.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Jack Evans and Sean Morley.

End Of Year Q&A | 060

To celebrate the final breaths of a miserable year, we’ve invited our listeners to ask us any question their imagination can summon up. Jack and Sean do their absolute best to answer truthfully without being sent to prison. 
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.
 

Cringe Guys | 059

The 21st century saw the rise of the politics of cringe. Sean and Jack excavate some cringe campaigns to learn valuable lessons about the future of cringe. Can the power of cringe be harnessed for good? Or should these forbidden fruits forever be cast into the abyss? 
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Jack Evans and Andrew Chrislett's performance of Antonin Dvorak's Biblical Songs Opus 99.
 

Skill Or Be Skilled | 058

Whip out your skills wallet and ensure your CV is up to date. Sean and Jack explore how the distinction between “skilled” and “unskilled” work hides the divide between people who work for a living and people who just own stuff (a ferrari, a golden eagle, the means of production etc.).
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Jack Evans.

Kit Kat Communism (feat. Matt Colquhoun) | 057

Sean speaks with Matt Colquhoun about postcapitalism, left melancholia and communists advertising kit kats. Matt, also known by his blogging alias Xenogothic, is the author of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher and editor of Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures. 
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.  
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Find out more about Matt's books Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher and Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures here.
 
 

Utopia, Dystopia and Human Imagination | 056

Sean and Jack consider how to imagine an alternative to capitalism by exploring our relationship with the Xenomorph, the Terminator and TikTok Teens who travel to alternate realities.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Sean Morley, Jack Evans and Victor Eijkhout’s ‘Gloop’

Asylum for Sale (feat. Siobhán McGuirk) | 055

Jack interviews Siobhán McGuirk about the how money is made in the global asylum industry.
Siobhán McGuirk is an anthropologist, journalist, curator, and filmmaker whose work focuses on gender and sexuality in the context of migration and the affective impacts of social justice organizing. She is a postdoctoral early career researcher at Goldsmiths University of London, and is a member of the editorial collective of Red Pepper magazine. 
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.
Find out more about Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry (Edited by Siobhán McGuirk & Adrienne Pine) here.

Starving Artists (feat. Jain Edwards) | 054

Just what is art? Is a tree an art? Is beyblade art? Sean and Jack are joined by arts and culture correspondent Jain Edwards to unpick the sticky state of the arts in a society that can only measure value in terms of profit. They discuss the problem of defending arts and culture based on the industry's £10.8billion per year contribution to the UK's GDP, as well as imagining ways to overcome the challenges that stop arts being truly inclusive and adventurous.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. In this episode we are joined by Jain Edwards as well as guest sections from Sam Nicoresti, Tom Burgess and Josie Hypatia Grounds.
Additional music in the episode contributed by Sam Nicoresti and by Josie Hypatia Grounds as Himë Bangs.
Tom Burgess has just released his own podcast called Into The Archives With Peter Fleming. 

I Owe My Life to Richard Branson | 053

Sean and Jack go “boots in” on billionaire head of the Virgin empire, NHS suer, tax exile, coup enthusiast, horny boomer and knight of the realm Sir Richard Branson. 
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.Additional music from Anton Rubenstein's Opus No 3 performed by Paul De Bra and Gloria al Bravo Pueblo performed by the United States Navy Band. 
Mark Powell provided additional voiceover in the Virgin comics segment.