None of the features this week (except the Political Climate weather forecast)

but plenty of live recordings from the Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise march for £10 on 17th December
and live music from Steve White and the Protest Family, and Ichabod, that night

Plus a report on the care crisis

and live audio from Adrian Picton, on how the Social Model of Disability has been hijacked by the Establishment

Hope you had a merry Xmas,
and Happy New Year

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Southern Trains strike
- Syria crisis
- Strikes in Cyprus

This shorter than average broadcast is the last official broadcast of 2016
But a "special" broadcast is planned on Boxing Day,
with items held over from this week,
and more besides!

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- NHS in peril from STPs
- Nazis defeated in Austria
- Post Office strikes
- Victory for Standing Rock protesters against oil pipeline


Live speech from Adrian Picton of Disability Campaigners and the Socialist Party, in Chesterfield on Saturday 3rd December,
on the Medical Model vs the Social Model of disability

Live speech from Thursday's SWP Chesterfield branch meeting, by Paul Packham, on Cuba, Castro and Socialism

Live speech from Gareth of the BFAWU, at the Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise rally on Friday 14th October

Deeper Underground

Entire speech from Thursday's SWP Chesterfield branch meeting, by Paul Packham, on
Cuba, Castro and Socialism

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This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Danger of the racist right wing across Europe
- Tories' autumn statement is bad news for low paid
- Durham Teaching Assistants' dispute
- Save Our NHS campaign across the UK
- South Korean protests against their leader

Live speech from Lindsay German of Stop The War, in Chesterfield on Monday 28th December,
on the Chilcott Report

Deeper Underground

Entire speech from Lindsay German of Stop The War, in Chesterfield on Monday 28th November,
on the Chilcott Report

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Nationality checks for NHS treatment
- Trump's right wing cabinet
- Ritzy cinema strike
- Education protest

Live speeches from the 10th November Stand Up To Racism rally in Chesterfield, by:
- Cheryl Pigeon, Unite The Union

Live speeches from the 12th November Unite The Resistance - Building fighting unions in the era of Jeremy Corbyn
conference in central London, by:
- Holly Fishman, Bectu, on the Ritzy cinema strike
- Liz Lawrence, UCU, on the threat of for-profit universities

Deeper Underground

Live speeches from the 10th November Stand Up To Racism rally in Chesterfield, by:
- Cheryl Pigeon, Unite The Union
- Hardeel Dhinsa, Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner
- Dick Pitt, Rotherham 12 Justice Campaign
- Nahella Ashraf, Stand Up To Racism

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Stinky Trump wins US presidential election
- Stand Up To Racism grows
- Morocco protests after fish seller murdered by Police

Live speeches from the 10th November Stand Up To Racism rally in Chesterfield, by:
- Nahalla Ashraf, SUTR Manchester
- Dick Pitt, Rotherham 12 Justice Campaign

Live speeches from the 12th November Unite The Resistance - Building fighting unions in the era of Jeremy Corbyn
conference in central London, by:
- Megan Charlton, on the Durham Teachins Assistants' dispute
- Sean Coyle of the RMT, on the Southern Rail dispute

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Tories' war on the poor
- Stinky Trump wins US presidential election
- Fujitsu workers' strike
- South Korean protests against their leader
- Is Britain becoming more segregated?
- Should we wear the poppy?

Live speech from the 8th October Stand Up To Racism national conference, by:
- Judith Benda, of German left party Die Linke

Exerpts of Chesterfield SWP branch meeting, on:
US elections - is Hilary Clinton a lesser evil

Deeper Underground

Speeches from the October 2nd demo to Unwelcome the Tories to Birmingham, by:
- Sam Fairburn, Peoples Assembly
- Natalie Bennett, former Green Party leader
- Lindsay German, Stop The War
- Stephen Boris Burke, Birmingham poet
- Salma Yaqoub, Birmingham councillor
- Bob of DPAC
- Lee Barron, Midlands TUC
- Askey Turner, Steel worker in Unite
- Ravi Secremanian, Unison West Midlands
- Oktay Timpula, Hayat TV (Turkey) journalist

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Tory Amber Rudd denies inquiry into Battle of Orgreave
- St George's Hospital strike by G4S workers
- Spanish school students and teachers protest and strike
- Should we celebrate Guy Fawkes?

Live speech from the 8th October Stand Up To Racism national conference, by:
- Weyman Bennett, co-chair of Stand Up To Racism

Exerpt of Chesterfield SWP branch meeting, on:
US elections - is Hilary Clinton a lesser evil

Deeper Underground

Recording of Chesterfield SWP branch meeting, on:
US elections - is Hilary Clinton a lesser evil (James Eaden)
plus summing up

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Calais jungle demolition
- Durham teaching assistants' strike
- South African student protests

Live speech from the 2nd October demo to Unwelcome the Tories to Birmingham, by:
- Salma Yaqoub, ex Birmingham councillor

Live speech from the 8th October Stand Up To Racism conference in London, by:
- Petros Constantinou, of Keerfa

Live speech from the 14th October Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise demo, by:
- Diane Ferguson, of the GMB, about ASOS

21st October 2016

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Why we must let the refugee children in
- Syria and Iraq cannot be liberated by bombing
- Aberfan disaster

Live speeches from the 8th October Stand Up To Racism conference in London, by
- Edie Friedman of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality
- Muhbein Hussein, of the Rotherham 12 Defence Campaign

Live speeches from last Friday's Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise demo, by:
- Peter from the GMB, on the Sheffield Veolia bins dispute
- John McDonnell, shadow chancellor

Deeper Underground

Live speech from last Friday's Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise demo, by:
- John McDonnell, shadow chancellor

SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on Thursday 14th October,
on Imperialism and Political Islam

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Stand Up To Racism national conference
- Southern Rail strike
- Victory in Poland against anti-abortion law
- Demos in support of refugee children

Live speeches from last Saturday's Stand Up To Racism conference in London, by
- Alf Dubs, architect of the Dubs Amendment in support of refugee children
- Alex Kenny, National Union of Teachers
- Gloria Mills, TUC

Live speech from the 2nd October demo to Unwelcome the Tories to Birmingham, by:
- Oktay Timpula, journalist at Hayat TV, which was closed by the Turkish government

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Tory Party conference and demo to "Unwelcome the Tories to Birmingham" (with interviews with protesters)
- Southern Rail's dirty strikebreaking tricks
- Demo outside Rotherham 12 court case, with speeches
- Chesterfield Momentum public meeting: Life after capitalism - socialism or barbarism

Live speeches from last Sunday's demo in Birmingham, by:
- Lindsay German, Stop The War
- Weyman Bennett, Stand Up To Racism

Deeper Underground

Speeches from Thursday's demo outside the Rotherham 12 court case
- Speech 1 (intro)
- Speech 2
- Speech 3

30th September 2016

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Corbyn's victory in Labour leadership election
- India and Pakistan at war over Kashmir
- Education strikes
- Clampdown on migrants causes yet more death and hardship

plus audio from last Saturday's Rotherham 12 conference in Sheffield, Injustice In The System:
- Introduction by Suresh Grover
- a statement from Bob Jeffery, Sheffield TUC

Deeper Underground

Recordings from Thursday night's SWP Chesterfield branch meeting:
- After Corbyn's victory, where next (Michael Bradley, SWP national organiser)

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Corbyn and the Labour leadership election
- Syria's war escalates
- Post Office strikes
- Greek demos against Golden Dawn Nazis

plus audio from last Saturday's Palestine fundraising dinner,
by representatives from:
- Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- Rotherham 12 Defence Campaign

Deeper Underground

Recordings from Thursday night's SWP Chesterfield branch meeting:
- Marxism and psychology (speaker: Dermot)
- Summing up

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27th May 2016

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This week's broadcast has features on:
- Election results, across the UK and Northern Ireland
- Greek strikes and protests over pensions cuts
- Migration - traps to avoid

audio from Thursday night's SWP Chesterfield meeting, on the French Work Law and protests and strikes against it

audio from the May Day Left Exit meeting in Chesterfield, by Arthur Scargill of the NUM and Socialist Labour Party

This week's broadcast has a theme of: Euro Alternative Vision :p

Deeper Underground

SWP Chesterfield meeting on Thursday 12th May, on the French Work Law and protests and strikes against it;
- Main speech
- Summing up

May Day Left Exit meeting in Chesterfield,
speeches by

SWP Chesterfield meeting on Thursday, May 5th, on
- Islamophobia

This week's broadcast has features on:
- The Labour Party anti-Semitism accusations
- Trump, Sanders, Clinton and the US left
- Big Pit museum strike
- Anti-SATs "strike"
- Anti-Zionism; traps to avoid falling into
- Press release from Transition Chesterfield about local anti-fracking demo


and audio from the May Day Left Exit meeting in Chesterfield, by Karen Seymour, of the Socialist Party's Mansfield branch

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Hillsborough disaster and Establishment cover-up
- Junior doctors' strike
- Matlock protest against forced acadamisation of schools
- Should we challenge Challenge 25 ?

and audio from the Saturday 16th April Peoples Assembly demo in London, by
- Mark Turner, a steel worker from South Wales
- John McDonnell, the left wing shadow chancellor

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Why the left must not pull its punches against the Tories
- The impeachment of Brazil's president Rousseff
- The Peoples Assembly London demo of 16th April
- Sanders and resistance in the US

and audio from last Saturday's Peoples Assembly demo in London, by
- Yanis Gourtsunnis, a BMA Junior Doctor
- Danielle Tiplady, of the NHS Bursaries Or Bust campaign

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Cameron's tax dodginess
- Paris protest camp

and audio from last Saturday's Northern Powerhouse - Northern Poor House demo in Sheffield, by
- Marianne Lloyd of the PCS union
- Simon Merch of the NUT
- Mark Serwotka, PCS leader

and audio from February's Stand Up To Racism rally in Chesterfield, of Amy of DE Solidarity

This week's broadcast has features on:
- The Panama Papers, and their revelation of a web of corruption from Iceland to the UK
- Sanders' gains in US Democrat Party presidential primary elections
- Junior Doctors' strike goes from strength to strength
- Peoples' Assembly London demo, 16th April 2016
- Graffiti art

and audio from this afternoon's Cameron Must Go, Save Our Steel demo in Sheffield, by
- Junior Dr Will Supprell
- Peter Davis, of the GMB, on the Veolia waste dispute

Deeper Underground

From the Rotherham UAF demo against the EDL, on 23rd March,
the following speeches:

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Steel crisis - how do we stop closures of steel plants?
- The "Living" Wage
- Junior doctors' strike and teachers' dispute
- UAF Rotherham counter-demo against the EDL
- Benefit sanctions, fromthe viewpoint of a Derbyshire Unemployed Workers' Centre advisor

Speeches from last Saturday's UAF Rotherham counter-demo against the EDL, by:
- James Eaden, of Chesterfield Trades Council
- Pat McLochlan, of Rotherham NUT
- Brian Steel, a Rotherham councillor

This week's broadcast has features on:
- IDS' resignation
- Grangemouth Docks strike victory
- 19th March Stand Up To Racism - Refugees Welcome Here march and rally
- Brussels bombing by Daiesh

Audio from Saturday 19th March's Stand Up To Racism London march and rally, by
- Rotherham 12 Defence Campaign
- Alma, Iraqi refugee

Audio from February 27th Stop Trident march and rally, by
- Christine Blower, NUT leader

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Benefit sanctions
- Campaign to save Derbyshire Sure Start centres

Audio from Tuesday 15th March's Stand Up To racism rally in Chesterfield, by
- Matt Carr, author of Fortress Europe
- Cheryl Pigeon, of Unite The Union
- Lisa, local president of the NUT
- Zak Cochrane, national convenor of Stand Up To Racism

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Junior Doctors' strike
- Refugees' oppression and the March 19th Stand Up To Racism demo
- France strikes and protests

Audio from the national anti-Trident demo on 27th February, by
- Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union
- John Bolton, of Veterans for Peace

Audio from last month's Stand Up To racism rally in Sheffield, by
- Abtisam Mohammed, reading anti-racist poetry
- Weyman Bennett, chair of Stand Up To racism

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Refugees' repression and resistance across Europe
- Strike victory on Navy ships
- Student protests in India
- Coming elections in the USA
- Recent elections in Eire

Audio from last Saturday's national anti-Trident demo, by
- Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union
- John Bolton, of Veterans for Peace

As well as music from Sunday's concert in Sheffield by David Rovics,
and support act King Coat Duo,
speeches were made on the night by
- Maxine Bowler, of Stand Up To Racism
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Junior Doctors' dispute
- Guinea (West Africa) strike
- Scrapping Trident will not cost jobs
- EU - should we vote In or Out ?

Plus recordings from Monday (15th February) Stand Up To Racism rally in Sheffield, by
- Naseema Akhtar
- Criminology lecturer, Wakesh Dufail

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Junior Doctors' dispute
- Egyptian doctors' strike
- Why we must defend Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel
- Syria - the "ceasefire" that ain't!
- Should Radio Resistance (Chesterfield) change its name ?

Plus recordings from Monday (15th February) Stand Up To Racism rally in Sheffield, by
- Moazzem Begg
- Weyman Bennett

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Google tax dodging and other dodginess
- Flint, Michegan, mass water poisoning
- Junior doctors' strike
- UAF national conference, and solidarity with refugees
- Cameron's prison "reform" plans
- Bernie Sanders' meteoric rise

Deeper Underground

Audio from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on
Greece - an eyewitness account and summing up

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Junior Doctors' strike and protests
- Zika virus
- Tory Trade Union Bill and TUC Heart Unions campaign

Plus interviews recorded on the Chesterfield anti-fracking demo
Plus audio from Notts and Derbys Labour History Group meeting on Edward Carpenter

Deeper Underground

Audio from Notts and Derbys Labour History Group meeting on
Edward Carpenter - a North Derbyshire radical

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Trident and Corbyn
- Cameron forcing immigrants to learn English
- Junior doctors' BMA calling off strikes
- Refugees, The Jungle demolition, racism and resistance
- Bernie Sanders' left wing bid for US Presidency

Deeper Underground

SWP Chesterfield branch meeting, 21/1/2016, on How do we defend the NHS?
- 1st speaker
- 2nd speaker

This week's broadcast has features on:
- The Junior Doctors' strike
- Cologne sex attacks, racism, sexism, and resistance
- Corbyn's reshuffle and Trident
- Tories' attacks on council housing

From the start of this year, Radio Resistance (Chesterfield) is back to a single broadcast each week, recorded on a Saturday (instead of Friday, as previously).

All the old favourites are still there, namely News, Red Guide, Pick Of The Strikes, Direct Action, and Political Climate.

Plus, this week, features on:
- Winter floods in the UK - not a natural disaster!
- Islamophobia, racism against immigrants, and resistance
- Junior doctors' strike
- Saudi executions and the protests against them
- A review of the film The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 2

Plus live audio from the SWP (Chesterfield) branch meeting on:
Did the Paris climate talks achieve anything?