Lectures, Interviews, Documentaries and Videos

Just finished transcribing Lecture 1 of 6 from this series from 1980
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/audio/labour-theory-value
thinking of uploading the transcription to libcom

Just finished listening to this, really great interview about the slow crisis of capitalism since the 70s, basically about how it keeps itself alive and eats itself at the same time:

"Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression" - a 1 hour interview with Goldner on the 'Guns and Butter' show, KPFA radio, Berkeley.
http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20070404-Wed1300.mp3

Also this talk by Peter Linebaugh at Bristol Radical History group, on "the commons or the true commons":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OarARsPWl_E
[youtube]OarARsPWl_E[/youtube]

And might as well mention Finally Got The News, documentary about the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgJd_MvJVzg
[youtube]RgJd_MvJVzg[/youtube]

There's been a few simple, entry level political topic shows on BBC lately. Obviously the editorial is liberal but some of the interview content has been pretty good. A scroll through the documentaries menu of iplayer should turn up a few bits.

I've been watching a few youtube videos by Akala, he has some stuff worth listening to.

This is good, shame it's at the Oxford Union.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtAxUQjwB4

[youtube]WUtAxUQjwB4[/youtube]

I read this recently, it's not hardcore theory but it's a good personal perspective. I'd like to read the book it's promoting too.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/17/lynsey-hanley-how-i-became-middle-class-respectable-experience-of-class-extract

I'm reading a book called This is London, the stories you never hear, the people you never see by Ben Judah. It's a good read but I can't decide if it's sensationalist and cherry picks the facts to tell a story he wants to tell or if it's really brilliant and a gamechanger. I'm only 1/4 through at the moment.

Short documentary by Louis Henderson called Lettres du voyant about Ghana, it's really good.

China Under Communism (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBzHy5UJJnA

That channel mostly has lots of videos on American everyday life, short documentaries etc.

Gerry Potter- Fuck All (A Poem which mentions the disrespect shown to Darcus Howe by the BBC after the 2011 Riots in England, RIP Darcus)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCB-0RLSRg8
[youtube]tCB-0RLSRg8[/youtube]

A Woman Half in Shadow. The story of Zora Neale Hurston, 30min.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08m9kvj

ContraPoints Free Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYUCD5mO1gI
[youtube]nYUCD5mO1gI[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9QTQ7yxExQ
[youtube]-9QTQ7yxExQ[/youtube]

Well-made educational series by French tv channel ARTE on the history of anarchism between 1840-1945.

https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x4ybbn

Well made informative website full of usefull texts, facts, and political cases:https://warsawinstitute.org/ . I suppose it's worth checking if you have some spare time.

That site is utter shite.

I have a few documentaries and Labour films like Kameradschafft, Strike and Salt of the Earth on my channel I also was making videos (well slideshows really) to go along with episodes of Utah Phillips Loafers Glory -a peoples history of America with a lot of obscure music mixed in- but the content id system made me cool off after awhile, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs2TxwyLLUrgExyZDmD1k_TQn4E0debWS

On The Eve of Destruction: A Conversation with John Pilger

Interview with Pilger about recent film The Coming War on China

America Is The Poorest First World Country Linh Dinh

RT Interview with Linh Dinh

Badmouse is pretty interesting he easily has the highest production values of any YT political not backed by a studio.

Also just discovered another anarchist collective making audiobooks of revolutionary texts.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaO1QA8QL99_eb0XhJI2Fyw/about

[youtube]s0I5fnNY8sU[/youtube]

I'm not too fond of any of the left libertarian youtubers I've come across. If you want an overview of the Spanish Revolution, which is mostly the modest type of content they produce, I say just read the wiki page. The Pewdiepie-ification of political or historical topics is not how I like such information served to me, and I don't really care for the inside references these videos are invariably filled with, leaving one feeling out of the loop. I'd rather keep things academic and just grab a book, or read a good blog.

Potrokin, just for sake of easy loading this page, can you not embed the videos, and instead just provide their title?
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I wonder how easy it is now for oneself to make a documentary, on history, as someone tried to do for the ICC, or on an issue/society, in the vein of Debord's SotS.

So much footage is available to select from: A/V Geeks Film Archive, British Pathé, CriticalPast, Russian archive, etc.

To construct a visually well-made documentary, and not sloppily assemble the already most familiar footage, not mere illustrations for a scripted lecture (as the cartoons used in Kapitalism101's videos on Capital).

The technical skill to edit is not too great, I guess (I have no clue what the best video-editor programs are tho).

potrokin

The History of Antifa (interview with Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-FVS5QhUHc

Will Antifa Remain If Fascism Subsides? (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEn6JeElATg

Am interested to know what people make of this, it's an interview by a liberal youtube channel but seemed balanced and not at all biased to me, which was refreshing. Am also interested if people know about Mark Bray and what they think of him and his book (if they've read it). I'm aware that Bray has appeared on Democracy Now, and I believe, put his views across from a militant/ antifa perspective if I remember correctly.

Heres a link for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbbTdrrzKM

I saw the Bray interview and thought it was refreshing to have someone defend antifa. I don't have a copy of his book yet but I'd like to read it (as well as other books on the subject of anti-fascism). If anyone has a digital copy and wants to upload to libcom, would be nice.

Probably worth starting a new thread if people want to discuss Bray's book. It's excellent, he's solid and I'm writing a review which will hopefully be up on the site at some point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb75_6i_cc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZonz0YE50A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HemZYkiXz4&t=32s

Anyone seen this? i thought it was Brilliant .

Contrapoints on " the left".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuN6GfUix7c&t=2s

Don't know what people here think of its conclusions.

patient Insurgency

Anyone seen this? i thought it was Brilliant .

Contrapoints on " the left".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuN6GfUix7c&t=2s

Don't know what people here think of its conclusions.

I got a kick out of Contra's ripping into the "golden one," but I don't really care for this. It feels like they're just throwing buzzwords at me, and I don't really know what to take away from it. (She characterizes anti-fascists as "thugs in masks smashing things in the streets"?) More importantly they put kings on adjacent squares at 2:30, which is a violation of the rules of chess. As I mentioned before I'm not so fond of YT political types; I'd rather get my politics from reading serious stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcE3jaMuuy8

War, Revolution, Socialism, War: How do the events of 1917 and thereafter help us understand the world of today, and perhaps of tomorrow? 1917 Centennial Series: Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University

potrokin

More importantly though, what do you guys think of the baby bats?

Winged rats we could do without if you ask me.

I like koalas more.

potrokin

Koalas are cute. Gibbons are another animal I am fond of, they are so cool and the way they move makes me laugh, they are also rather human looking aswell ofcourse but they are unique aswell.

Heres a video of a Gibbon playing and stealing some bananas, there are loads of cool Gibbon videos on the interwebs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiL6i-pBVio

Orangutans and Bonobos are other apes I like, infact anything that is not a common Chimpanzee or a Baboon is fine with me because they are nasty.

Koalas are really the only cute marsupials (and arguably the cutest of all mammals); the rest are eyesores. I'd still take a sugar glider over a blood-sucking bat though. Kangaroos are basically overgrown mutant bunnies, and baboons are complete bastards from what I've read of Robert Sapolsky (great book by the way, A Primate's Memoir).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0GTr8nZ03k

koalas wrestling

Well that went downhill quickly. The thread started with Murray Bookchin and the labour theory of value but by page 3 it's changed to libcom's answer to Harry Hill.

A video on Antifascism,the production style confused me at first, but the video itself has a lot of information and interviews with anti fascists from many organisations, groups and parts of the world.

[youtube]gVS3hJhjUiA[/youtube]

Amnesty International have done a very good if grim podcast series from various political prisoners describing how and why they were imprisoned and the conditions they face inside.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs2TxwyLLUrg1lPr7SAhZtyeQMItSYkzr

So I found two interesting podcasts by the BBC that may be of some interest, one's a biography of Louise Michel

[youtube]yIv3P1p47Ro[/youtube]

The other is a philosophical round table hosted by Melvyn Bragg on Anarchism

[youtube]KCLpP-J4Uy0[/youtube]

Several lectures on the need to abolish work

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs2TxwyLLUriekzKZjgY7sHW14z0CxIhK

And thoughts on the Society of the Spectacle

[youtube]b6dcA__ozPo[/youtube]

Two YT channels dedicated to making audiozines/books on Anarchist texts.

The Audible Anarchist

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaO1QA8QL99_eb0XhJI2Fyw

Resonance Audio
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YOiFJXuvI1f90WXZWC1sQ

[youtube]waEYQ46gH08[/youtube]

Boris Malagurski's award-winning Canadian film "The Weight of Chains", dealing with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a different angle - finally, exclusively, on YouTube!

Watch the film that has stirred controversy around the world, screened at cinemas across Australia, Canada and the US, as well as at film festivals in London (Raindance), Belgrade (Beldocs), Havana, Ann Arbor, Toronto, and many others.

If you thought you knew why Yugoslavia broke up, get ready for 2 hours of shocking facts that will shed a different light on Western intervention in the Balkans. Nicknamed the "Serbian Michael Moore" by the oldest daily newspaper in the Balkans, Malagurski will expose the root causes of the Yugoslav wars and explain that the goal was for the West to create economic and geopolitical colonies in that part of the world.

Who's in the film? Everyone from former "Economic Hitman" John Perkins, Retired Major General of the UN Army Lewis Mackenzie, Canadian economist Michel Chossudovsky, Canadian journalist Scott Taylor, former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia James Bissett, humanitarian Vlade Divac and the list goes on!

This film was funded exclusively through donations, so please support the project by buying a DVD of the film through the film's website:

http://www.weightof chains.com/buy

Also! Please donate towards the next film that Boris Malagurski is working on: The Weight of Chains 2, which will continue the story where the first film ends! Watch the trailer and donate now at:

http://www.weightof chains.com/2

1950 Socialist Workers Party (USA) Debate on Yugoslavia and the International Revolution, Part One.

(starts@6:30)

[youtube]Sc0kvlB598g[/youtube]

Candidly Unamerican A spoken word album about living in America

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTeHv2rWFci4gHPrrv9R53MdzVc07A98x