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Podcast: Novara Media
Episode: Novara FM: Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living w/ Sarah Jaffe
Description: “Don’t mourn, organise” were the final words of American labour activist Joe Hill before his execution in 1915. But sometimes our feelings of grief don’t lend themselves to good organising – sometimes we might just want revenge.
In her forthcoming book, critic and journalist Sarah Jaffe looks at the many kinds of grief that shape our social and political lives, from family bereavement and mass death during a pandemic, to factory closures and the spectre of climate breakdown.
She joins Eleanor Penny to talks about the ghosts of the industrial worker, the fate of capital’s “sacrifice...