Mandatory Redistribution Party

Jack interviews writers Mareile Pfannebecker and J. A. Smith about work and how its logic bleeds into everything we do, from our day to day desires to the futures we imagine beyond capitalism.
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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 with additional music by Sean Morley.  
Mareile Pfannebecker and J. A. Smith’s book Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism is out in March from Zed Books. https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/work-want-work/

Nationalise or privatise - which is your favourite? Sean and Jack come up with money making schemes (e.g. roads, national grid) before exploring the story of the first private finance initiative: the Skye bridge. Jack also takes a deep dive on nationalisation.
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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 with additional music by Jack Evans.The original source for the Isle of Sky toll bridge story is George Monbiot's 'The Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain' (2000)

Sean ensnares Jack in a discussion about his secret fascination with an online subculture where people transform their imaginary friends into sentient brain-beings beyond their control.
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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 with additional music by Sean Morley and a short excerpt from Michael Nyman's 1986 Opera A Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

Jack interviews writer, poet and lecturer Alex Niven, whose new book argues that the map of the British Isles should be torn up, that instead of pandering to patriotism we must move toward radical regionalism.
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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. 
Alex Niven’s excelelnt book 'New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England' is available here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/new-model-island-how-to-build-a-radical-culture-beyond-the-idea-of-england/

Jack grants Sean the poisoned chalice of becoming Prime Minister of the UK.
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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 with additional music by Jack Evans.

Sean and Jack discuss building community and counterpower in a privatised world of individual consumption. Jack inherits a haunted social club from his uncle while Sean introspects on reconnecting with others in the new year. 
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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 with additional music by Sean Morley. 

Sean and Jack react to Thursday’s monumental loss, exploring their personal experiences of the election, how this happened and what we might do next.
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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.

It's election week, dreams and nightmares are made flesh as the collective fears and anxieties of a country will be made flesh and slouch towards Westminster to be born. What can we expect from this historic bout between billionaires and a quiet jam grandad? To find out, I spoke with sociologist and left blogger Phil Burton-Cartledge in a full GE2019 analysis ep. 
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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 with additional music by Sean Morley. If you're interested in helping canvass for Labour, check out https://www.mycampaignmap.com/ to find out where canvassing action is taking place and look for local Momentum training meetings if you want to learn more. 

Gaze through our window to the darkest future timeline and enjoy the Ultimate Canvassing Challenge, readings from Tony Benn’s diary and a guest appearance from Top Body Builder Brian (Jain Edwards). Recorded live at the Peer Hat as part of Manchester Podcast Festival on 27th November 2019.
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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 by Sean Morley and Jack Evans as well as Concierto de Aran-who-ez from the film Brassed Off, Arabesque by Debussy. Thanks to Poppy Turner, Jain Edwards, Jon Stansfield & Bean.

Sean and Jack discuss nuclear weapons and ask the big question that comes up every election: why are so many politicians keen to be seen as enthusiastic about these civilian-massacring planet destroying eldritch metal nuggets? 
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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 with additional music created by Jack Evans inspired by Orchestral Manouvers In The Dark's "Enola Gay".