The Party Line on Dick Cheney, Mamdani and Net Zero

Warning: huge session this week. The team start by celebrating two significant developments in US politics, the death of super-villain Dick Cheney and the defeat of billionaire sex-pest Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s victory was unfolding as the show was being recorded, but we took the time to bask in the fear and hatred of the American right-wing twitter. We analyse the troubles the Coalition is having with Net Zero, before looking at whether Labor’s approach is fundamentally any better (tldr: it’s not). We introduce a new segment (that still needs a name and/or jingle, plz help us out) on socialist theory, before wrapping up by taking a look into the far right manosphere.Extra readingsHis Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies | The Nation An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive | Internet | The Guardian The classes of capitalism | Red FlagWoodside’s WA gas export expansion emissions greater than all Australia’s coal power stationsClimate Analytics | Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is… This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.If you like what you hear, please subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.) This pod was produced on land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.