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2020 broadcasts




   1st May, 2020

This week's broadcast features:
- Speech by Sarah Bates at Women and Coronavirus online meeting (25/4)
- Speech by Amy Leather at online meeting on Marxism and Ecology in time of pandemic (18/4)
- Speech by Mark Serwotka, general secretary of PCS union,, at Solidarity with our NHS online rally (8/4)
- Speech by Dr Siema Iqbal at Stand Up to Racism online meeting on why Covid 19 is causing so many deaths of people in ethnic minorities
- Speech by Sam Mason at CND's Ventilators Not Exterminators online meeting (25/4)
- Kev Titterton poem at We Shall Overcome Isolation Fest

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25th April, 2020

This week's broadcast features:
- After Coronavirus - no return to Business As Usual !
- Coronavirus, civil liberties and the state
- Speech by Claire Dixon, a London health worker, at Solidarity with our NHS online rally (8/4)
- Martin Empson speech at SWP's Marxism and Ecology in the age of Coronavirus online meeting (18/4)
- Speech by Greek anti racist Petros Constantinou, at SUTR's Coronavirus and the Hostile Environment online meeting (2/4)
- Graham Rhodes poem at We Shall Overcome Isolation Fest

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   17th April, 2020

This week's broadcast features:
- Speech at Coronavirus Q&A online meeting (4/4) by Karen Weissman
- Eugenics explained
- Speech by Sonia Adizera of Keep Our NHS Public, at Solidarity with our NHS online rally (8/4)
- Part 2 of Extinction Rebellion's Ask A Scientist online meeting on environmental destruction and diseases
- Speech by paramedic Esme Choonara at SUTR's Coronavirus and the Hostile Environment online meeting (2/4)
- Janine Booth poem "Clap For Carers" at We Shall Overcome Isolation Fest

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   10th April, 2020

This week's broadcast features:
- Speech at Coronavirus Q&A online meeting (4/4) by Dr Lee Humber
- The case for and against charity
- Speech by Libby Nolan at Solidarity with our NHS online rally (8/4)
- Extract from Extinction Rebellion online meeting on environmental destruction and diseases
- Speech by Kate Hudson at CND "You Can't Nuke A Virus" online meeting (4/4)
- Speech by Sabby Dhalu at SUTR online rally (21/3)

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   4th April, 2020

This week's broadcast features:
- Coronavirus - why Tories and bosses can't keep us safe
- Social model of disability explained
- Coronavirus - international political situation
- Meat, coronavirus and climate chaos
- Weyman Bennett (SUTR) speaking at online rally against racism (21/3)
- Attila the Stockbroker poem

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   28th March 2020

This week's broadcast features:
- Coronavirus - all in it together?
- Coronavirus - why are non essential workplaces still open?
- Video speech from Australia, at the Sheffield Climate Emergency Conference
- Speech by Brendon Woodhouse, of SeaWatch, at the Matlock Stand Up To Racism meeting
- Zoom video meetings

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21st March 2020

This week's broadcast features:
- Extracts from Wednesday night's SWP online meeting about coronavirus Covid 19
- Speech at the Stand Up To Racism public meeting in Matlock, by Muslim anti-racist campaigner Nahella Ashraf (Part 2)
- Speech from the Sheffield Climate Emergency Conference by Patrick Wakefield of UK Schools Climate Network
- A brief history of disability

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   14th March 2020 -
Return Broadcast

This week's return broadcast features:
- Chesterfield SW forum on the Coronavirus Covid 19 epidemic, by Rebecca B
- Speech at the Stand Up To Racism public meeting in Matlock, by Muslim anti-racist campaigner Nahella Ashraf (Part 1)
- Report on the Sheffield Climate Emergency Conference,
- plus speech there by Martin Meyer of Sheffield Trade Union Council

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   8th February 2020 -

Part 1 of this week's broadcast features:
- 10 good reasons to join a trade union
- New Tory terror laws will trash civil rights but not stop terror

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Part 2 of this week's broadcast features:
- Food and the environment
- Socialist Worker forum on: Why did Labour lose the December 12th election (continued)

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   1st February 2020 -

Part 1 of this week's broadcast features:
- Leave or Remain, we must fight racism
- Chesterfield Socialist Worker forum on: Why do some workers vote Tory? (Part 1)
- Health and Safety - how can unions help?

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Part 2 of this week's broadcast features:
- Renewable energy explained
- Obituary to Barry Johnson
- Holocaust Memorial Day in Chesterfield

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   25th January 2020

Part 1 of this week's broadcast features:
- How and why the World Economic Forum in Davos offers no solutions to world's problems
- Is disability prejudice caused by human nature?
- Will Brexit lead to a bonfire of workers' rights?

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Part 2 of this week's broadcast features:
- Climate chaos and transport
- Excuses for nuclear weapons debunked
- Extract from Thursday night's Socialist Worker forum on Iran and Imperialism (Speaker: James Eaden)

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   18th January 2020 -
New Year, New Fightback!

Part 1 of this week's broadcast features:

- Refugee families stay divided, as refugee children prevented from reaching UK by Tory government
- How do we define disability?
- Precarious workers - how can unions help?

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Part 2 of this week's broadcast features:
- Why are greenhouse gas emissions still increasing?
- Nuclear weapons explained
- Extract from Thursday night's Socialist Worker forum on France In Revolt (Speaker: John Ross)

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11th January 2020 -
New Year, New Fightback!

Part 1 of this week's broadcast features:
- Speeches by James Eaden of Chesterfield Trades Council, Derbyshire County Councillor Mick Wall,
   and Lesley Matthews of CND, at Chesterfield Don't Attack Iran demo
- Need better pay? Join a union!
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Part 2 of this week's broadcast features:
- Climate change explained
- Extract from Thursday night's Socialist Worker forum on where next for the left in 2020 (Speaker: Mary)
- Speech by Jeannie Robinson of Stand Up To Racism at Chesterfield Don't Attack Iran demo
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