ABC With Danny and Jim

ABC With Danny and Jim

Danny Evans & Jim Yeoman

Episodes 49
Avg. Duration 1h
Activity Moderate
Apple Rating 5.0 (9)
Since Apr 2020
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Join the Anarchist Book Club, where Danny Evans and Jim Yeoman discuss radical history and politics

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45. Another War is Possible

Dec 23, 2025 56m

In this episode we’re discussing Tomas Rothaus’s Another War is Possible (PM Press, 2025) an account of the movement against capitalism over the turn of the 21st century, written by an anarchist…

44. Blood in the Machine

Sep 21, 2025 48m

In this episode we’re discussing Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant, published in 2023 by Little, Brown and Company. Blood in the Machine is an account of the Luddite rebellion in early 19th…

43. Land and Freedom, with Andy Durgan

Apr 13, 2025 1h 12m

In this episode, we’re delighted to be joined by Andy Durgan, a historian who has lived in Barcelona since 1982, and author of several books about the revolutionary left and International volunteers…

42. The Paris Commune with Carolyn Eichner

Mar 01, 2025 58m

In this episode we are joined by Carolyn Eichner, Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, to discuss her brilliant book The Paris Commune: A Brief…

41. Cybernetic Revolutionaries

Dec 08, 2024 57m

In this episode we are discussing Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina (MIT Press, 2011), which examines the effort to create a cybernetic system of communication and industrial management…

40. The World Turned Upside Down

Oct 27, 2024 1h 1m

In this episode we discuss Christopher Hill’s The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, originally published in 1972. This book is widely regarded as a seminal work…

39b: The Fall and Rise of the British Left [Correct Audio]

Sep 07, 2024 58m

THIS IS THE CORRECT AUDIO, PLEASE IGNORE EARLIER VERSION OF EPISODE 39 In this episode we discuss The Fall and Rise of the British Left (Verso, 2019) by Andrew Murray. We originally intended this…

38. Everything for Everyone

May 29, 2024 1h 2m

In this episode we discuss M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s speculative fiction Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 (Common Notions Press, 2022). We both…

37. Alexandra Paulin-Booth: 'Time and Radical Politics in France'

Apr 01, 2024 51m

In this episode we are delighted to be joined by Dr Alexandra Paulin-Booth, to discuss her book Time and Radical Politics in France, published by Manchester University Press in 2023. Alex’s work…

36. Jessica Thorne: Anarchist Prisoners under Franco

Mar 06, 2024 55m

In this episode we speak to our longtime friend and comrade Jessica Thorne about her work on anarchist prisoners under the Franco regime in Spain. Jess has recently completed a PhD at Royal…

35. Ronald Grigor Suny

Feb 11, 2024 58m

In this episode we were delighted to be joined by Ronald Grigor Suny, one of the most distinguished scholars of the Russian Revolution in the world. Suny has written extensively on a huge range of…

34. Sho Konishi: 'Anarchist Modernity'

Jan 07, 2024 52m

In this episode we discuss Sho Konishi's brilliant Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 2013). This book has been…

33. Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography’ (ABC Edition)

Dec 11, 2023 40m

In this episode we discuss our first ever ABC Edition pamphlet: a translation of Víctor García's ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography’. Danny has taken the lead on this…

32. Means and Ends with Zoe Baker

Nov 06, 2023 50m

After a few months off, ABC returns with a brilliant guest, Zoe Baker (⁠@anarchopac⁠) author of Means and Ends published with AK Press in 2023: ⁠https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html⁠. Zoe's…

31. Conversation on 'Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain'

Jan 22, 2023 1h 17m

In this episode we discuss 'Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain,' a reprint of Jim's book published by AK Press in September 2022. This conversation is a natural follow…

Episode 30. 'Fractured,' with Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley

Oct 09, 2022 1h 2m

In this episode we are joined by Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley to discuss their new work 'Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics,' published with Pluto Press. You can…

29. Interview with Sophie Turbutt and Josh Newmark

Sep 11, 2022 1h 9m

*** We begin this episode with a statement read by Danny from Ryan Roberts, one of the Bristol Kill the Bill protesters, who has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. If you would like to learn more…

Episode 28: Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez: Anarchism and the Russian Revolution

May 08, 2022 1h 6m

In this episode we are joined by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez of Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. Arturo's work focuses on the transnational and comparative history of revolutions and radical…

ABC Bitesize #4: Juan Santana Calero - Miquel Amorós

Apr 25, 2022 16m

This episode provides an overview of the biographical essay on the Spanish anarchist activist Juan Santana Calero (1914-1939) contained in Miquel Amorós, Los incontrolados de 1937. Memorias…

Episode 27: Eric Hobsbawm's Primitive Rebels

Feb 27, 2022 1h 13m

In this episode we discuss Eric Hobsbawm's classic - and much-criticised - study of social banditry, millenarian insurrection and mob politics, 'Primitive Rebels' (1959).  This key text remains a…

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