ACFM Microdose: Gardening
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are gardens a sanctuary or an enclosure? The ACFM gang sketch out a weird-left history of gardening,...
ACFM Trip 53: Growth
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer claims that growth is the only cure for a country in decline. But why is it the central...
ACFM Microdose: Social Reproduction
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following their Trip episode about Cleaning, the ACFM crew take a closer look at the hidden labour t...
ACFM Trip 52: Cleaning
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the socialist utopia of our dreams, who exactly is doing the cleaning? Nadia, Jem and Keir confro...
ACFM Microdose: Superheroes
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the recent Trip episode on Heroes, Keir and Jem return with a Microdose focusing on the ma...
ACFM Trip 51: Heroes
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ACFM crew offer a weird-left perspective on the role of the hero (and heroine) in politics and c...
ACFM Microdose: Make Way For Winged Eros!
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ACFM gang gather for a springtime reading of a prototype acid-communist text by Russian revoluti...
ACFM Trip 50: Fifty Shades of Acid
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gang present a milestone 50th Trip all about acid: a drug, a genre, a political concept, a menta...
ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to ...
ACFM Microdose: Making Sense of Sovereign Debt w/ Heidi Chow
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After last week’s ACFM on the meaning and morality of personal debt, Keir and Nadia zoom out to th...
ACFM Trip 49: Debt
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of debt is as slippery as it is powerful. In this Trip episode, Keir, Nadia and Jem expl...
ACFM Microdose: The Communist Manifesto
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ACFM gang gather for a midwinter reading of one of the most influential political tracts ever wr...
ACFM Trip 48: Political Commitment
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Which side are you on? Keir, Nadia and Jem consider the ebb and flow of political commitment with id...
ACFM Trip 47: Disruption
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Disruption is a byword for success in the tech industry, but when it affects people’s daily routin...
ACFM Trip 46: Death
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew t...
ACFM Microdose: The Joy Of Fascism
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A month after racist riots engulfed the country, the ACFM crew ask what fascism – and antifascism...
ACFM Trip 45: Holidays
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody hates a tourist, as Jarvis Cocker once pointed out, and the ACFM gang are no exception in...
ACFM Trip 44: Humility
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you lose? In this Trip, the ACFM crew explore the role of humility – and humili...
ACFM Microdose: Election ’24 Vibecheck
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ACFM crew offer their first reactions to Labour’s landslide election win. Can Starmer’s gove...
ACFM Microdose: Notes on Camp
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After investigating the politics of cool on the last Trip episode, the crew turn their attention to ...
ACFM Trip 43: Cool
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly is cool? Well, if it was that easy to describe, it obviously wouldn’t be cool. In thi...
ACFM Microdose: Reactionary Democracy w/ Aaron Winter & Aurelien Mondon
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do mainstream politicians and pundits contribute to the normalisation of far-right ideas, even a...
ACFM Trip 42: Fascism
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of people are saying that fascism is on the rise. But what are we pointing to when we call a s...
ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From fecal transplants to the yoghurt-industrial complex, we’ve never been more absorbed in the wo...
ACFM Microdose: Aliens On Screen
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last time on ACFM, the gang explored the impact of UFOs on politics, from deep-state conspiracies to...
ACFM Trip 40: UFOs
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Should the left care about the existence of aliens? The ACFM gang explore the impact of UFOs on poli...
ACFM Microdose: Plugged-in Protest w/ Jeremy Gilbert
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Music has the uncanny power to stir up big feelings, which makes it an obvious vehicle for political...
ACFM Microdose: A Festive 50 For 2023
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The ACFM gang get together for the last time this year to deliver a Festive 50. Keir, Jem and Nadia ...
ACFM Trip 39: Protest
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Millions have protested against the bombing of Gaza by taking part in marches, boycotts, sit-ins and...
ACFM Trip 38: Movement and Stillness
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever feel like there’s too much change these days? Don’t worry, you’re not (necessarily) becom...
ACFM Trip 36: Festivals
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Festivals. The perfect embodiment of the ACFM aesthetic, and even social politics… or are they? As...
ACFM Trip 35: The Internet
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this bumper Trip, the gang survey the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet. Nadia, K...
ACFM Microdose: Californian Capitalism w/ Malcolm Harris
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of an ACFM Trip about the internet, Keir Milburn is joined by Malcolm Harris to talk about the...
ACFM Trip 34: The Outdoors
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the longest day arrives in the northern hemisphere, Jeremy, Nadia and Keir ponder our obsession w...
ACFM Microdose: Sitcoms At Work
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After last week’s look at the politics of comedy, this time the gang turn to the gogglebox for a M...
ACFM Trip 33: Comedy
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the point of comedy? Stand-ups were at the forefront of the cultural backlash against Thatc...
ACFM Trip 32: Myth
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the epic of Gilgamesh to the archetypes of Carl Jung, the mysterious power of myth is at hand. ...
ACFM Microdose: Strikes On Screen
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The ACFM groupmind went into overdrive on last week’s Trip, a wide-ranging conversation about the ...
ACFM Trip 31: Strikes
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of Britain’s biggest wave of industrial action in years, the gang turn their attentio...
ACFM Microdose: A Ghost Story For Christmas
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ghosts have already got their own festival: Halloween. So why do they spook us at Christmas too? Do ...
ACFM Trip 30: Gifts
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Smith claimed that “the propensity to truck, barter and exchange… is common to all men”, ...
ACFM Trip 29: Sleep
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We don’t get enough of it. We take drugs all day to fend it off. We’ll do it when we’re dead. ...
ACFM Trip 28: Horror
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ACFM reunite for spooky season with one thing on their minds: the horror, the horror! Nadia, Jeremy ...
ACFM Trip 27: Magic
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in irrational times. From the resurgence of interest in astrology, tarot and occultism to th...
ACFM Microdose: Fantasy and Conspiracy With Wu Ming 1
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, an anonymous Italian collective published a novel called Q. Imagined by its left-wing autho...
ACFM Trip 26: Care
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we care for each other within a system that doesn’t care about us? In this episode, Nadia ...
ACFM Microdose: Tabletop Role-Playing Games
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), a group of people take a trip into an imaginary world, guid...
ACFM Trip 25: Games
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Games are all around us. They let us escape from drudgery and experiment with other worlds and ways ...
ACFM Trip 24: Technology
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What defines each era? Historians often lean on terms that point to technology: bronze, steam, carbo...
ACFM Microdose: Women and Technology w/ Katrine Marçal
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout history, countless good ideas have been side-lined or dismissed because they were put for...
ACFM Trip 23: War
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Just what is it good for? This time on ACFM, Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn respond to ...
#ACFM Trip 22: Democracy
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Has democracy broken down? Is it even an idea worth fixing? Trip 22 is a three-horse race as Nadia I...
#ACFM Microdose: Acid Camping
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When he’s not working on #ACFM, show producer Matt Huxley is a musician. His recent EP under the n...
#ACFM Trip: Unity and Difference
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first #ACFM Trip of the year, Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn look at the conflic...
#ACFM Microdose: Unity on the Frontline w/ Norah Lopez Holden
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What can we learn from the women of the Popular Front? Ahead of an #ACFM Trip on Unity and Differenc...
#ACFM Microdose: Organising for Revolution with Rodrigo Nunes
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What should political organisation in the 21st century look like? Wiggly? Lumpy? Diagonal? Something...
#ACFM Trip 20: Revolution
07 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The #ACFM gang square up a suitably momentous topic for their milestone 20th Trip: revolution! Nadia...
#ACFM Microdose: Revolution from Cromwell to Castro
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In anticipation of the next Trip, the ACFM trio deliver a condensed but essential history of revolut...
#ACFM Microdose: Space Forces with Fred Scharmen
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this #ACFM Microdose to accompany the gang’s recent Trip into space, Keir is joined by Fred Sch...
#ACFM Trip 19: Space
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn explore the politics of space. What even is space, and w...
#ACFM Microdose: Spatial Equality with Pooja Agrawal
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What could our towns and streets become after the pandemic? Ahead of the next #ACFM on space, Nadia ...
#ACFM Trip 18: Therapy
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert get on the couch to talk about therapy. Wrangling with h...
#ACFM Microdose: Psychodrama with Nada Sabet
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The point of psychodrama is not to create beautiful theatre, laughs practitioner Nada Sabet. To acco...
#ACFM Trip 17: Solidarity
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do we mean by solidarity? Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert consider the meaning of a...
#ACFM Trip 16: The Long ’90s
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this extended Trip, Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert wrestle with the idea of “the l...
#ACFM Microdose: Kill The Bill
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The proposed new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is an obvious assault on the right to pro...
#ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Gilbert hits the road for a musical microdose accompanying the #ACFM Trip on Folk. Connecting...
#ACFM Trip 15: Folk
04 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert go back to the land to dig into the politics of folk. Wi...
#ACFM Trip 14: Desire
14 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert explore the political power of desire from the storming ...
#ACFM Microdose: Tabitha Bast on Dating and Desire
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle speaks to psychosexual therapist and writer Tabitha Bast about dating and desire. They di...
#ACFM Trip 13: Crowds
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert return to talk about the power and potential of crowds –...
#ACFM Microdose: Ece Temelkuran on Crowds
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle speaks to Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran about the potency of crowds. Refle...
Welcome to #ACFM!
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
#ACFM is a podcast about left-wing politics, culture, music and experiences of collective joy, broug...
#ACFM Trip 12: The Cosmic Right
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert are back to discuss the recent rise of conspiratorial th...
#ACFM Microdose: Erik Davis on the Cosmic Right
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Gilbert talks to Erik Davis, scholar of weird culture, mysticism, and the fertile crossover b...
#ACFM Trip 11: Friendship
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the history and theory of friendship, from Arist...
#ACFM Trip 10: How It Feels to Be Free
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia, Jeremy and Keir search for the feeling of freedom, moving from Nina Simone to Buddhist House ...
#ACFM Trip 9: Utopia
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn discuss Utopias, including the Paris Commune, analogue d...
#ACFM Microdose: Acid Lockdown
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The #ACFM crew discuss life in lockdown including cheese care packs, the moral economy, and the cris...
#ACFM Trip 8: Acid Urbanism
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn discuss Acid Urbanism, including, The Right to the City,...
#ACFM Microdose: The Comedown
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The #ACFM crew take stock in the wake of Labour’s defeat and the dawning of a new year. https://no...
#ACFM Trip 7: Be Here Now
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn ask why now for acid corbynism? They discuss histori...
#ACFM Microdose: Election Special
24 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
‘You can’t say it’s boring’: the #ACFM crew bring you an election special – on organising,...
#ACFM Microdose: Extinction Rebellion
13 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The #ACFM crew discuss some of the issues and ideas raised by the ongoing Extinction Rebellion prote...
#ACFM Microdose: Mica Nava on Feminist Consciousness Raising
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ACFM’s Jeremy Gilbert interviews Professor Mica Nava on her experience of women’s liberation a...
#ACFM Microdose: Theories of Consciousness
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The #ACFM crew discuss the history of theories of ideology and consciousness in the radical traditio...
#ACFM Trip 5: Consciousness Raising
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss consciousness raising, with bonus excerpts from ...
#ACFM Trip 4: Love and Hate
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss love and hate. Listen to the full version of the...
#ACFM Trip 3: The Weird Left
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the weird left. FULL SHOW: http://novaramedia.co...
#ACFM Trip 2: Collective Joy
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the politics of collective joy. FULL SHOW: http:...
#ACFM Trip 1: Out of the Box
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn bring you #ACFM, a new show examining the links between ...