Victor's Children

Feminism for Our Time . . The reactionary right attacks liberalism's equal rights for cis women and 2SLGBTQIA people in a capitalist world that's getting worse for almost everyone. What kind of feminism is needed in these times? Ira Hybris draws on her experience as a marxist-feminist active in the Spanish state over the last decade to discuss that and related theoretical and political questions, including how we should counter the right's gendered appeals to working-class men. . . Some related reading: . Ira Hybris, "A Revolutionary Transfeminism In and Against Our Time" https://revsoc21.uk/2026/06/26/a-revolutionary-transfeminism-in-and-against-our-time/ . Bhattacharya, Arruzza and Fraser, Feminism for the 99% https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/774-feminism-for-the-99 . Cinzia Arruzza, “Remarks on Gender” https://viewpointmag.com/2014/09/02/remarks-on-gender/ . . Pride official trailer #1 (2014): https://share.google/6TJHO3up7ekswEer5

What is socialism from below? . . . Victor's Children is a podcast "talking socialism from below." What matters isn't the term but the politics it refers to. This episode is an introduction to this kind of revolutionary-democratic socialism, with guests Aileen and Kristen. They talk about what this approach to changing the world is, how it differs from more common kinds of socialist politics, why it's worth committing to, and what people who support it should be doing in the here and now. . . To learn more: . Sean Larson, What is socialism from below? https://tempestmag.org/2020/11/what-is-socialism-from-below/ . David McNally, "Socialist Politics in the Age of Trump" https://www.prairiered.ca/uploads/6/9/3/7/69371873/socialist_politics_in_the_age_of_trump.pdf . Hal Draper, Hal Draper: The Two Souls of Socialism (1966) https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1966/twosouls/index.htm . David Camfield, How should socialists think about political tradition? https://tempestmag.org/2024/04/how-should-socialists-think-about-political-tradition/ . and various past episodes of Victor's Children! . . Also: watch out for a new pamphlet by Natalia Tylim that makes the case for a socialism from below response to the situation in the USA today, coming soon from the Tempest Collective https://tempestmag.org/

The Russia-Ukraine war and the Left . . With Russia's all-out war against Ukraine now in its fifth year, Simon Pirani and Volodymyr Artiukh discuss the complex character of the war, the main stances to the war on the left, aspects of Ukrainian society today, and more. . . Related reading, viewing and other resources: . Simon Pirani, In Mexico, people fear one imperialist aggressor. In Estonia, it’s a different one https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/in-mexico-people-fear-one-imperialist-aggressor-in-estonia-its-a-different-one/#more-7216 . Simon Pirani (ed.), Voices against Putin’s war https://resistancebooks.org/product/voices-against-putins-war/ . V. Artiukh and T. Fedirko, War and dependent state formation in Ukraine. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/focaal/2025/102/fcl1020105.xml?rskey=5xbawE&result=2 . D. Dzenovska, V. Artiukh, D. Martin, M. Gunko, and M. Chew. Living Emptiness: Place, power, and meaning-making from the Baltic to the Russian Far East. https://emptiness.eu/news-and-events/living-emptiness-place-power-and-meaning-making-from-the-baltic-to-the-russian-far-east-multimodal-book/ . TRY ME FOR TREASON: anti-war protesters' speeches in Russian courts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHacVH8tK8 . Commons, a Ukrainian left journal Main Page - Спільне Commons https://commons.com.ua/en/ . Ukraine Solidarity Information https://ukrainesolidarityinformation.ca/ . Ukraine Solidarity Network https://www.ukrainesolidaritynetwork.us/

Learning To Change The World . Alan Sears draws on his research and personal experience to reflect on how people become radical organizers, the challenges they encounter, the different kinds of learning involved in being an effective radical organizer, and more. . . Some readings: . Alan Sears, The Next New Left: A History of the Future https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/the-next-new-left . . Katy Fox-Hodess and Rafeef Ziadah,"Community picket lines and social movement unionism on the U.S. docks, 2014–2021: Organizing lessons from the Block the Boat campaign for Palestine" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08969205251375053 . Jeff Schmidt's book Disciplined Minds is a very good look at the real world of graduate and professional schooling Disciplined minds : Jeff Schmidt : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/disciplinedminds00schm

How Should Socialists Organize Today? . . This episode is a sequel to episode 60 "Time to Party?" with guests Charlie Post in New York (Tempest) and Andreu Coll in Barcelona (Anticapitalistas). . Listeners unfamiliar with politics in the Spanish state may find it useful to read Andreu's brief section of this article for background: Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century https://tempestmag.org/2023/03/revolutionary-socialist-organizations-in-the-21st-century/ . Tempest Collective https://tempestmag.org/ . Anticapitalistas https://www.anticapitalistas.org/