Episodios

  • ACFM Trip 53: Growth

    ACFM Trip 53: Growth
    Aug 3 2025
    Keir Starmer claims that growth is the only cure for a country in decline. But why is it the central obsession of modern capitalist economies? And can we think our way out of it before our planet runs out of resources? Nadia, Keir and Jem offer their weird-left take on growth, degrowth, radical abundance, ecomodernism […]
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    1 h y 22 m
  • ACFM Microdose: Social Reproduction

    ACFM Microdose: Social Reproduction
    Jul 13 2025
    Following their Trip episode about Cleaning, the ACFM crew take a closer look at the hidden labour that keeps the economy running. Would public canteens solve 80% of our problems? Find the books and music mentioned in the show: https://novara.media/acfm Sign up to the ACFM newsletter: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support
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    1 h y 8 m
  • ACFM Trip 52: Cleaning

    ACFM Trip 52: Cleaning
    Jun 29 2025
    In the socialist utopia of our dreams, who exactly is doing the cleaning? Nadia, Jem and Keir confront a tricky topic in this ACFM Trip. With music from X-Ray Spex, The B-52s and more, they offer their weird-left perspective on everything from dirty dishes and bodily secretions to circumcision, pollution and the caste system. Find […]
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    2 h
  • ACFM Microdose: Superheroes

    ACFM Microdose: Superheroes
    Jun 2 2025
    Following the recent Trip episode on Heroes, Keir and Jem return with a Microdose focusing on the masked, the winged and the mutated. Why are superheroes such a cultural mainstay? What psychological and political desires do they fulfil? Are they inherently reactionary? From Superman to Batman, Wonder Woman to 2000AD, it’s a weird left reading […]
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    2 h y 1 m
  • ACFM Trip 51: Heroes

    ACFM Trip 51: Heroes
    May 18 2025
    The ACFM crew offer a weird-left perspective on the role of the hero (and heroine) in politics and culture. Nadia, Jem and Keir assess theories of Great Men, the myth of the hero’s journey and the lure of the anti-hero with ideas from Weber and Hegel and music from Tina Turner and Sonic Youth. Find […]
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    1 h y 50 m
  • ACFM Microdose: Make Way For Winged Eros!

    ACFM Microdose: Make Way For Winged Eros!
    Apr 27 2025
    The ACFM gang gather for a springtime reading of a prototype acid-communist text by Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai. Download the text and follow along as Nadia, Keir and Jem get their teeth into Make Way for Winged Eros! A Letter to Working Youth, published in 1923.Check out the AK-47 podcast mentioned in this show: https://kristenghodsee.com/podcast […]
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    1 h y 43 m
  • ACFM Trip 50: Fifty Shades of Acid

    ACFM Trip 50: Fifty Shades of Acid
    Mar 30 2025
    The gang present a milestone 50th Trip all about acid: a drug, a genre, a political concept, a mental tool and a thought corrosive. Looking back on six years of the podcast, Nadia, Keir and Jem decide if ‘acid’ is still a useful way of thinking about left-wing politics. Find the books and music mentioned […]
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    1 h y 38 m
  • ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield

    ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield
    Mar 9 2025
    What’s the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre company Complicité and the author of Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create Better World. They discuss Dan Edelstyn […]
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    1 h y 10 m