Sicko Mode

17/01/2021

We caught up with our dear comrade Jodi Dean to chat about what brought her to communism, as well as parties, comrades, political movements and, of course, climate Leninism ☭

Buy Comrade:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3060-comrade

Jodi's article with Kai Heron on Climate Leninism:

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/110/335242/revolution-or-ruin/

Join ACORN:

tinyurl.com/y2589kow

Bonus content: we discuss the organisational turn ;-)

https://anchor.fm/sicko-mode6/episodes/Combabe-3---an-interview-with-Jodi-Dean-ep3n01

04/01/2021

☭☭☭ Announcement ☭☭☭

We'll soon be recording an interview with Jodi Dean 🤩

What questions shall we ask her?

👇 Tell us in the comments 👇

https://twitter.com/sickomodecast/status/1345733856826155010

01/01/2021

The second dose of our festive offerings is a new years episode 💉

Siyang & Joe talk about the lows and highs of 2020, the villains and heroes ☭

And at the end of our episode we hear from some fans and guests as they tell us about their communist new years resolutions 👹❤️

https://anchor.fm/sicko-mode6/episodes/Happy-New-Year-Communist-Resolutions-eoem7r

25/12/2020

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25/12/2020

🎅☭ New crimbles episode just dropped ☭🎅

Siyang and I did one of our random last minute episodes, lots of gold in here.

We have a feelings check, talk about air raid shelters, corona, capitalism and the dialectics of Christmas.

https://anchor.fm/sicko-mode6/episodes/Merry-Christmas-from-Plague-Island-eo7bl1

11/11/2020

💯💯💯We talked with our new friend & comrade Jack () about ACORN, and ACORN Manchester & ACORN Liverpool more specifically 💯💯💯

Jack is in fact the newly elected communications officer for ACORN Liverpool 💪💪💪

Towards the end we also chat about the red specter of the Northern republic; anti-maskism, and the peoples commissar Andy Burnham.

https://anchor.fm/sicko-mode6/episodes/Taking-Whats-Ours---Intro-to-ACORN-embhnn 💯💯💯

07/11/2020

New episode:

"Marxist Economics & Coronavirus: an interview with Professor Edmund Hardy"

https://anchor.fm/sicko-mode6/episodes/Marxist-Economics--Coronavirus-an-interview-with-Professor-Edmund-Hardy-em57t9

18/10/2020

"Organising educators in a pandemic" - an interview with Vik Chechi-Riberio 👅

https://tinyurl.com/y6b6qhw6

Siyang and I did a long form interview Vik ChechI-Ribeiro, about his latest article in Tribune: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/09/how-teachers-organised-in-a-pandemic. Defo read the article then have a listen, as both article and podcast cover really useful stuff: like the new trade unionism, and org...

08/10/2020

New episode: Confe$$ions of a sabbatical officer

https://anchor.fm/sicko-mode6/episodes/Confeions-of-a-sabbatical-officer-__-eko6tn

Stella della Rossa joins us to talk being a sabbatical officer - at a now deceased institution - and we chat students political generally.

28/09/2020

And we're back:

https://anchor.fm/sicko-mode6/episodes/Season-2-Episode-1-The-Return-ek6pg4

09/05/2020

New episode out on video games, with Siyang, Holly Firmin, Marijam Didžgalvytė, and yourself.

https://anchor.fm/sicko-mode6/episodes/Animal-Crossing-Communist-Horizons-edqq0r

We talk about Animal Crossing but mainly video games much more generally - our faves but also the industry - and do some marxist and cultural analysis Featuring a segment with Marijam Didžgalvytė, and a long form interview with Holly Firmin.

31/03/2020

Special announcement: Sicko Mode is going to have an episode called 'Comrades' Question Time' where we answer your questions, or help with your personal problems.

Is there anything you've been wondering about? Anything on your mind? You may have a quarantine-based issue you want 'agony aunt'-style advice for? Or a political problem you've been wondering about? Ask us anything; we may read your question out on air, but it will be anonymised.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MTEqyZuuYghEzqE3PcCuVB0r-qppr3vDx06vCk8AHZw/edit

Is there anything you've been wondering about? Anything on your mind? You may have a quarantine-based issue you want 'agony aunt'-style advice for? Or a political problem you've been wondering about? Ask us anything; we may read your question out on air, but it will be anonymised.

29/03/2020

Siyang and Joe discuss Corbyn's legacy, the coming recession, and revolutionary Comrade Britney on episode 3 of our podcast - Sicko Mode: the Bane-nification of the global economy.
https://soundcloud.com/user-920180237/episode-3-the-bane-ification-of-the-global-economy?fbclid=IwAR35onPJuGrpvjR-ezJH_rc8pc3GDXEpJhsr5KbjT0nWzKRcnxDh0aOW7tQ

Join Siyang and Joe for episode 3, where we discuss Corbyn's legacy, the coming recession, and our revolutionary Comrade Britney. London Renters' Union coronavirus rent crisis info: https://londonren

24/03/2020

We've put out a very special episode of Sicko Mode on the lockdown; how we've been relaxing; and some good ways to spend your quarantine days.

https://soundcloud.com/user-920180237/episode-2-government-cockdown?fbclid=IwAR0eCKvnK8ipNK2gDLXDH7coBbVSoVMKS13SQs8GyNpA8JFpzWYMia_MNLA

Welcome to Episode 2: Government Cockdown - not the lockdown we wanted, but the one we were always going to get. Catch up with your pals Siyang and Joe as we make sense of the lockdown, share our jo

24/03/2020

Check out our ravishing first episode where we demand that the government lock us up!
https://soundcloud.com/user-920180237/episode-1-lock-us-up?fbclid=IwAR003qMDyJLvGVw3GKiCkxIFFN-kpr1kJY5oYUKGMG5oJyCG_LfQv4Gr2YI

Siyang and Joe discuss the events of the last week, and offer some solutions.