Trademark Belfast

Talking with Dr Paul O Connell of SOAS London who suggests that if we are to rise up and break through the crust of the earth and overthrow this system then we need to embrace the notion of serious, hard, underground, messy, long-term political education.

Trademark is today joined by Dr Steve Baker, former shop steward in the Transport and general Workers Union, now Lecturer in Film and TV at the University of Ulster to talk about all things hegemonic....

2008 - 2020 The last in our current series that takes us beyond the Global Financial Crash to look at the lies behind austerity, quantitative easing, privatization and the reconstitution of class power.

Trademark talks to Emma Clancy, advisor to Die Linke (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament about the EUs 'response' to the biggest global crisis since.....ever.... More from Emma here: https://emmaclancy.com/ https://irishbroadleft.com/ https://www.guengl.eu/the-reviled-stability-growth-pact-must-be-ditched/

A discussion on the characteristics of neo-liberal capitalism, the 'enemy' within, the myth of the small state, the dominance of finance capital and the Global Financial Crash of 2008.

Talking pandemics, austerity 2.0, government formation talks in the Republic of Ireland, youth radicalism & resistance, building a movement. {Conor McCabe, Author of 'Sins of the Father, Tracing the decisions that shaped the Irish economy', an economic history of the free state, the post crash austerity programme, and the liquidation of IBRC/Anglo..........and author of 'Money', a book which sets out to provide a scholarly analysis of money and capital, the institutional economic class interests that exist in Ireland, and alternatives to same in the spheres of paid labour and social reproduction.

The End of Bretton Woods, Chile 9/11, the neo-liberal turn and Thatcher!

The return of Comrade Professor John Barry of Queen's University Belfast talking with Seán Byers and Stiofáin Ó Nualláin about the Just Transition, Green New Deal, Modern Monetary Theory, Community Wealth Building (and the EU.....)

The Golden Period of Capitalism, the Welfare Compromise and the historical 'blip' that was 'social democracy'.

Trademark Belfast on the origins and importance of May Day (with drink)

Not a description of the participants but rather a series of talks between Trademark and friend and comrade John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy at Queen's University Belfast addressing the dangers and opportunities on the current crisis.

The Crash, the Depression, The Dust Bowl, The New Deal and how John Wayne won World War 2. (or how the Soviet Union out-produced Nazi Germany and crushed them at the Battle of Kursk) Historical Capitalism Part 4 John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of 1929 (1955) Adrian Grant, Socialist Republicanism in Ireland, 1909-1936 (2012) Mark Harrison, ‘Resource mobilization for World War II: the U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R. and Germany’, 1938-1945’, https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/public/ehr88postprint.pdf Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (1994), Part One, https://libcom.org/files/Eric%20Hobsbawm%20-%20Age%20Of%20Extremes%20-%201914-1991.pdf Emmet O’Connor, Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 (1943) Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 (1995) Paul Preston, The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (2006) John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction (2006) Adam Tooze and James R. Martin, ‘The economics of the war with Germany’, in Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Second World War(2015), https://adamtooze.com/app/uploads/2016/03/Tooze-Martin-Economics-of-War-Against-Hitler-CambHistWW2Vol3.pdf

Mel Corry of Trademark talking with: Michala Lafferty Trade Union official with USDAW - The retail workers union, Alice McLarnon of the Belfast Cleaning Society - A Worker's Cooperative, and Jo McDonnell - Frontline Health Worker

Third installment of a wander through the history of capitalism taking in Fordist Mass production, the Bolshevik Revolution and The Crash of 1929. Historical Capitalism Part 3 Jacobin Special 1916 Edition, Between The Risings (2016), https://jacobinmag.com/issue/between-the-risings James Connolly, ‘The Coming Revolt in India’ (1908), https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1908/01/india1.htm James Connolly, ‘The Friends of Small Nationalities’ (1914), https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1914/09/friends.htm James Connolly, ‘What is a Free Nation?’ (1916), https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1916/02/whtfrnat.htm Neil Faulkner, ‘A Marxist History of the World, Part 81: The Roaring Twenties’, Counterfire, 24 June 2012, https://www.counterfire.org/a-marxist-history-of-the-world/15860-a-marxist-history-of-the-world-part-81-the-roaring-twenties F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of 1929 (1955) David Harvey, The Condition of Post-Modernity (1989), Chapter 8 Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century (1994), Chapters 1-4 Conor Kostick, Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917 to 1923 (2009) V.I. Lenin, ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination’ (1916), https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm Rosa Luxemburg, The Junius Pamphlet (The Crisis of German Social Democracy) (1915), https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1915/junius/index.htm China Miéville, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (2017) Vijay Prashad, Red Star Over the Third World (2017) John Reed, The Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) Dave Sherry, Empire and Revolution: A Socialist History of the First World War (2014) John Tully, The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber (2011)

Talking through the impact and implications of the global pandemic.

A second installment of our discussion on historical capitalism and why we teach it. Historical Capitalism Part 2 Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England (1844/45), https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/condition-working-class-england.pdf Christopher Hill, Reformation to Industrial Revolution (1990) Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day (1999), Chapters 1 & 2 Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 (1975) Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987) Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1990) V.I. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1 (1867), Chapters 27-33, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch26.htm Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa (1990) Michael Perelman, The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation (2000) Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944), Chapter 1 Walter Rodney, How Europe Undeveloped Africa (1973), Chapters 5 & 6 E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963), Chapters 7-10 Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism (1999)

Trademark punters talking political economy, historical capitalism and pandemics. Podcast reading list Historical Capitalism Part 1 Friedrich Engels, The Peasant War in Germany (1850), https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/index.htm Neil Faulkner, A Marxist History of the World (2013), Chapter 6 Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004) Rodney Hilton, Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 (1973) David Jamieson, ‘The Revolution of 1517’, Jacobin, 31 October 2017, https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/martin-luther-reformation-religion Michael Perelman, The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation (2000) Walter Rodney, How Europe Undeveloped Africa (1973), Chapters 1-4 David Stannard, American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World (1992) Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism (1983)

Talking in a wee state of shock about the seismic impact of Sinn Fein's electoral surge in the free state.

Brexit ramblings, don't have a canary...

Three worker coops discuss cooperatives - Trademark, Belfast Cleaning Society and the Creative Workers Coop

Staff Christmas do chat about the elections, trigger warning, bad language, content warning, lefty ramblings

As part of Community Relations Week https://www.community-relations.org.uk/we hosted a panel discussion on ‘Youth Organising against Sectarianism’ with Conal Matthews of the Connolly Youth Movement www.cym.ie , Cllr Fiona Ferguson of People Before Profit www.pbp.ie and Christopher Stewart of the Socialist Party www.socialistparty.ie, the event was chaired by Ruairí Lennon.

In partnership with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation www.brexitblog-rosalux.eu a panel debate with Clare Bailey GPNI, Tommy McKearney EXPAC, Deirdre Hargey Sinn Féin, Patricia McKenna Former MEP.

First in a series of discussions on this uplifting topic

Ramblings on the Irish language - Comhrá scaipthe ar an Gaeilge

General musings about elections in Ireland, north and south, GB and Europe.

A conversation with Matthew Collins of Hope not Hate about his book 'Nazi Terrorists – The Inside Story of National Action' Book available at: @Bookmarks_books @CaltonBooks http://naziterrorist.com/

Talking Trade Unions in Ireland with Dave Gibney, Communications Officer with Mandate the Bar and Retail Workers Union. [www.mandate.ie]

Check out our new blog in partnership with the The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation at www.brexitblog-rosalux.eu for discussions on Brexit, the Border, the EU, Eurozone and building left hegemony. Up the workers!

A tribute to our comrade and friend Joe Law 1946-2016