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Politics Theory Other // Biden begins w/ Kate Aronoff
February 14, 2021 12:43 - 31 minutes - 30.2 MBKate Aronoff joins PTO to talk about what can be expected from the Joe Biden administration in the United States, both domestically and on foreign policy. We discussed the scale and scope of the administration's stimulus package, where the Republican party goes next after its defeat at the polls in November, and we also talked about why - in spite of Biden's impressive rhetoric on climate and the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline - the US fossil fuel industry expects a good year ahead...
Politics Theory Other // Why the Luddites were right (part 1) w/ Gavin Mueller
February 06, 2021 13:11 - 35 minutes - 33.9 MBGavin Mueller joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job'. In the first part of our conversation we talk about the history of the Luddites, why their reputation for conservative technophobia is undeserved and how their struggles to resist the imposition of new deskilling technologies are relevant to the contemporary workplace. We also talked about the problems of leftwing techno-utopianism.
A World to Win // Activists Tried as Terrorists w/ Ben Smoke
February 03, 2021 15:00 - 5 MBThis week, Grace talks to Ben Smoke, one of the members of the Stansted 15: a group of activists who stopped a mass deportation flight from taking off from Stansted airport in 2017, before being tried under law designed to prosecute terrorists. They discuss the details of the protest and the trial, the government's barbaric approach to migration policy, and why successive Tory governments seem so adept at breaking international human rights law. For the full episode, support us on Pat...
A World to Win // No Holding Back w/ Ian Lavery and Laura Smith
January 27, 2021 17:04 - 5 MBIn this week’s episode of A World to Win, Grace talks to Ian Lavery MP, former Chair of the Labour Party, and Laura Smith, former MP for Crewe and Nantwitch, about their new project No Holding Back, which you can find online and on Twitter. We discuss whether the Labour Party is still the party of the working classes, the likely impact of Brexit on the UK, and how the Left can rebuild trust with communities across the country in the wake of the pandemic. Remember that you can support...
Politics Theory Other // Capitalist dreams and nationalist designs w/ Ravinder Kaur
January 25, 2021 16:02 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBRavinder Kaur joins PTO to talk about her new book, 'Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India'. We spoke about how in both India, and around the world ethnonationalism in alliance with domestic and international capital seeks to rebrand entire nations as attractive investment opportunities. We talked about who and what is left out of the airbrushed picture of the branded nation, why it is that nationalism and capitalist globalisation are not a...
A World to Win // Remembering Leo Panitch w/ Sam Gindin and Max Shanly
January 22, 2021 21:09 - 5 MBThis week, in a special episode of A World to Win, we remember the brilliant Marxist thinker, writer and public intellectual Leo Panitch. Grace talks to Max Shanly, Labour Party activist and long-time friend of Leo, and Sam Gindin, former director of research for the Canadian Auto Workers’ Union and Leo’s collaborator, including on his magnum opus The Making of Global Capitalism. Several of Leo Panitch’s books and many of his essays are available for free through the Socialist Register....
A World to Win // Cutting to the Bone w/ Vijay Prashad
January 14, 2021 15:05 - 5 MBIn this week’s episode, Grace Blakeley speaks to Vijay Prashad, head of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and author of Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups and Assassinations. They discuss the recent wave of strikes taking place across India, the rise of the far right both there and across the world, and the mechanisms through which imperial power is exercised in today’s global economy – including the use of investor state dispute settlements by international...
Politics Theory Other // Climate activism and the fetishisation of nonviolence w/ Andreas Malm
January 13, 2021 17:10 - 28 minutes - 30.2 MBAndreas Malm joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'How To Blow Up a Pipeline'. We chatted about why the climate movement is so fiercely committed to nonviolence, how that hinders climate activism, and how the advocates of nonviolence edit the history of popular struggles and liberations movements in order to downplay the importance of the more militant wings of those struggles.
A World to Win // Chaos at the Capitol w/ Bhaskar Sunkara
January 08, 2021 14:10 - 5 MBThis week, Grace talks to Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazine and author of The Socialist Manifesto: The case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality. They discuss the events currently taking place in the US, as white supremacists and far right extremists storm the Capitol after the Democrats took control of the Senate in the wake of the victory of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia on Wednesday 6th January - as well as how the US left can work to bu...
Politics Theory Other // The trouble with mainstream feminism w/ Alison Phipps
January 03, 2021 11:52 - 31 minutes - 31 MBAlison Phipps joins PTO to talk about her new book, 'Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism'. We chatted about the MeToo movement and what it reveals about the mainstream of feminist politics, how violence against women is necessary to the project of capitalist globalisation and how the image of the imperilled white woman has been central to the project of empire both formal and informal.
A World to Win // Crony Capitalism w/ Ana Kasparian
December 19, 2020 14:02 - 5 MBThis week, Grace talks to Ana Kasparian, host and executive producer for The Young Turks and now co-host of Jacobin’s Weekends series. We discuss the media landscape in the US and the importance of alternative media to the socialist movement, the progress towards a stimulus package in the US, and how progressives should relate to a Biden presidency. For the full hour-long episode, support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/aworldtowinpod Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the...
Politics Theory Other // The meaning of Maradona w/ Marcela Mora y Araujo & Jonathan Wilson
December 10, 2020 12:41 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBMarcela Mora y Araujo and Jonathan Wilson join PTO to talk about the late Diego Maradona and the outpouring of grief that greeted his death in Argentina and around the world. We also talked about the darker side of Maradona, his mistreatment of the women in his life in particular and the tangled question of whether one can separate the art from the artist.
A World to Win // Municipal Socialism w/ Owen Hatherley
December 09, 2020 17:30 - 5 MBThis week Grace Blakeley talks to Owen Hatherley, Tribune‘s culture editor and author of many books, including his most recent, Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London. Grace and Owen discuss municipal socialism, regional and class inequality in the UK, and the future of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer. Remember that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode pos...
World to Win // #EndSARS w/ Sa'eed Husaini
December 03, 2020 20:30 - 5 MBThis week Grace Blakeley is joined by Sa’eed Husaini, socialist activist and contributor to Africa is a Country and Jacobin. Sa’eed recently completed a PhD at the University of Oxford and is now living and working in Lagos, Nigeria. He discusses the recent #EndSARS protests, the economic and health impact of COVID 19 in Nigeria, and the history and future of the Nigerian left. A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer, Conor Gill...
A World to Win // #EndSARS w/ Sa'eed Husaini
December 03, 2020 20:30 - 5 MBThis week Grace Blakeley is joined by Sa’eed Husaini, socialist activist and contributor to Africa is a Country and Jacobin. Sa’eed recently completed a PhD at the University of Oxford and is now living and working in Lagos, Nigeria. He discusses the recent #EndSARS protests, the economic and health impact of COVID 19 in Nigeria, and the history and future of the Nigerian left. A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer, Conor Gill...
Politics Theory Other // Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? w/ Brett Christophers
November 29, 2020 19:31 - 33 minutes - 32.1 MBBrett Christophers joins PTO to talked about his new book, Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? We chatted about the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy, why the concept of rentierisation is more useful and accurate than the notion of financialisation when talking about the trajectory of the UK and world economies, and we also talked about how and why entrepreneurialism and competitiveness are values that are taken up far more by o...
Politics Theory Other // What Covid-19 reveals about the family w/ Sophie Lewis
November 22, 2020 10:40 - 34 minutes - 20.1 MBSophie Lewis joins PTO to talk about her article in The Nation, 'Covid-19 Is Straining the Concept of the Family. Let’s Break It'. We chatted about how the Covid19 pandemic has underscored how dependent the nuclear family is upon the labour of others, and why the family is being called into question by mainstream political commentators. We also talked whether the call for family abolitionism is strategically the right call to be making, and whether instead the left ought to demand the extens...
A World to Win // North by North West w/ Andy Burnham
November 19, 2020 16:59 - 5 MBOn this week’s show Grace Blakeley is joined by Andy Burnham – former Labour MP and current Mayor of Greater Manchester. Recent weeks have seen Burnham, along with other mayors in the north of England, stand up to the Tory government and demand equity in financial support during the Covid-19 crisis. In this show, he also discusses what cities like Manchester are doing to tackle climate breakdown and the housing crisis, as well as why the Left needs to embrace a socialist devolution agend...
A World to Win // Survival of the Friendliest w/ Rutger Bregman
November 12, 2020 17:33 - 5 MBOn this week’s show Grace Blakeley speaks to Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History. In January of last year, Bregman shot to international fame when video of him excoriating the tax-avoiding corporate elite at Davos went viral – and in the latest A World to Win he discusses a range of topics from human nature to capitalism and the 24-hour news cycle. A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to ...
Politics Theory Other // What happened to the 'blue wave'? w/ Adom Getachew and Branko Marcetic
November 06, 2020 08:51 - 33 minutes - 24.7 MBAdom Getachew and Branko Marcetic join PTO to talk about the US election results, why the 'blue wave' failed to materialise and how Joe Biden will govern with a Republican senate and a republican majority on the supreme court.
A World to Win // US Election w/ Briahna Joy Gray and Matt Karp
November 05, 2020 18:45 - 5 MBA World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. This week we have a US election special on A World to Win, as the world’s leading superpower melts down over a cliff-edge presidential contest. Grace Blakeley is joined by two guests – former Bernie Sanders national press secretary Briahna Joy Gray and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp – to discuss the Biden landslide that never w...
Politics Theory Other // Corbyn, Labour, and the EHRC report w/ Barnaby Raine
November 03, 2020 11:13 - 36 minutes - 27.8 MBBarnaby Raine joins PTO to talk about the EHRC report into antisemitism and the Labour Party, the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the party, and what the affair tells us about the treatment of antisemitism in the UK in 2020.
A World to Win // Ending Thatcherism w/ Zarah Sultana
October 29, 2020 21:28 - 5 MBThis week, Grace Blakeley speaks to Labour MP for Coventry South Zarah Sultana. Since her election in December, Zarah has been one of the most prominent figures on the party’s Left – most recently speaking out against the Spy Cops Bill in parliament. She discusses the Tories’ attempts to impose the costs of the pandemic on those least able to bear it, the lessons the Left can learn from Corbynism, and why we need to fight for a global Green New Deal in the wake of this crisis. A reminder ...
Politics Theory Other // The week austerity died? w/ Grace Blakeley
October 26, 2020 14:37 - 8 minutes - 6.74 MBGrace Blakeley joins PTO to talk about the current state of the UK economy, whether the era of austerity is over, and why even in the face of a no deal Brexit the UK is unlikely to experience an attack of the bond market vigilantes. We also talked about Grace's excellent new podcast, 'A World To Win'.
Politics Theory Other // Morrissey, nationalism, and the aesthetics of English misery w/ Owen Hatherley & Kojo Koram
October 17, 2020 11:56 - 32 minutes - 34.2 MBOwen Hatherley and Kojo Koram join PTO to talk about Owen's essay, 'A Study in the Politics and Aesthetics of English Misery'. In the essay Owen reflects on the generational divides that have emerged over the course of the last two UK general elections by charting the musical evolution of The Smiths. Comparing Morrissey’s political trajectory to those of many voters throughout the North of England, Owen investigates the roots of the North’s departure from anti-Thatcherite collectivism to nat...
A World to Win // A New Republic w/ Mary Lou McDonald
October 15, 2020 14:06 - 5 MBThis week, Grace is joined by Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Fein, to discuss the issues that drove the party's dramatic rise in this year’s general election, the impact of the pandemic on the Irish economy, and Sinn Fein’s proposals for a unification poll in the event of a no deal Brexit. Like this week's episode? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/aworldtowinpod
A World to Win // The Crisis Before the Crisis w/ Rob Davies
October 08, 2020 14:55 - 5 MBThis week, Grace talks to Rob Davies, senior figure in the South African Communist Party and former South African Minister for Trade and Industry. They discuss the impact of COVID-19 on South Africa and the rest of the Continent, the hegemony of the ANC over South African politics, and the challenges of developing an industrial strategy in a highly financialised, highly unequal, semi-perhipheral economy.
A World to Win // Liberation and Domination: an Interview w/ Cornel West
October 01, 2020 15:11 - 5 MBOn this week’s show, Grace is joined by author, academic and activist Cornel West to discuss radical politics in the United States. West, a philosopher at Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department, gives his views on Black Lives Matter, the “neo-fascism” of Donald Trump and the need to critique the role of American empire across the world. He also discusses how the Left can fight back against these morbid symptoms, by building a socialist spirituality, a culture o...
A World to Win // The New Shock Doctrine w/ Naomi Klein
September 26, 2020 09:00 - 5 MBA World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. On this week’s show, Grace Blakeley is joined by academic, activist and left legend Naomi Klein to discuss the US elections, the case for the Green New Deal, and whether the world is about to face another lesson in the politics of the shock doctrine. Naomi has words of encouragement but also a warning for activists – the smears that...
A World to Win // Life After Bernie w/ Meagan Day
September 25, 2020 09:00 - 5 MBA World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In this episode, Grace talks to Meagan Day – staff writer at Jacobin and co-author of Bigger than Bernie: How we go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism – about the US presidential election, the economic and environmental crises currently sweeping through America and the future of the Left after Bernie. Meagan discusses ...
A World to Win // Remembering David Graeber w/ Astra Taylor, Jerome Roos and James Schneider
September 24, 2020 09:00 - 5 MBA World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In this episode, Grace speaks to Astra Taylor, Jerome Roos and James Schneider about their memories of the brilliant anthropologist and activist David Graeber, who tragically died on September 2nd. David Graeber was the author of many books, including Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs, and was also seminal in the early dev...
A World to Win // The Great World Bank Robbery w/ Walden Bello
September 23, 2020 09:01 - 5 MBA World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In this episode, Grace is joined by Walden Bello, academic, author, human rights campaigner and former member of the Filipino House of Representatives. The show discusses the history of the Philippines, Bello’s opposition to the brutal Marcos dictatorship, his longstanding fight against US imperialism and neoliberal globalisation (inc...
A World to Win // "Neoliberal Authoritarianism" w/ Guillaume Long
September 22, 2020 23:33 - 5 MBA World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In the second episode of A World to Win, Grace talks to former foreign minister of Ecuador Guillaume Long about the impact of Covid-19 in the country, the rise and fall of the Correa government and the growth of ‘neoliberal authoritarianism’ in Latin America. Long discusses the “huge cuts” imposed in recent years by Ecuador’s Moreno...
Politics Theory Other // Is Trump's America a failed state? w/ Bhaskar Sunkara
September 05, 2020 09:59 - 35 minutes - 41.6 MBBhaskar Sunkara joins me to talk about the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin and collusion between the far right and the police, whether the frightening prospect of a second Trump administration makes a rerun of the 2016 election result less likely - in spite of Joe Biden's underwhelming policy platform - and we also talked about the prospect of the American right breaking from its relative economic orthodoxy and moving towards advocacy of a meaningful industrial policy.
Politics Theory Other // The IDF - an army like no other w/ Haim Bresheeth-Zabner
August 30, 2020 16:11 - 32 minutes - 33.2 MBHaim Bresheeth-Zabner joins me to talk about his new book, 'An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation'. We discussed how the the Zionist project in Palestine depended upon the erasure of the culture of the Pre-WWII Jewish diaspora, why it is that Israeli military operations command near unanimous support within Israel, and how Israel's economy has become massively dependent on its military industrial complex and permanent conflict.
A World to Win with Grace Blakeley // Jeremy Corbyn
August 19, 2020 11:03 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBWelcome to the first episode of A World to Win with Grace Blakeley, a new podcast from Tribune. Today, Grace is joined by Jeremy Corbyn to discuss to the UK government’s disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the rise and fall of Corbynism, and the future of socialism within the Labour Party. For the first time ever, hear Jeremy on the "absurd" discussions he had with the government about its herd immunity strategy and why the furlough scheme was unlikely to have been implemented...
Politics Theory Other // After the capitalocene w/ Rosie Warren
August 17, 2020 08:57 - 28 minutes - 28.7 MBWhat will come after the capitalocene - and is that even the right term to describe our geological era? Rosie Warren joins me to talk about 'The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene' - an essay coauthored by Rosie that considers the entwined processes of climate change and the proletarianisation of the world's population. We talked about the debate over whether to describe our geological age as the anthropocene or the capitalocene and we also discussed Walter Benjamin's notion of...
Politics Theory Other // Towards a New Cold War? China and the US w/ Tobita Chow & Jake Werner
August 07, 2020 10:52 - 35 minutes - 41.6 MBTobita Chow and Jake Werner join me to talk about the roots of the increasingly antagonistic relationship between China and the United States, the reasons for bipartisan consensus on China's increasing technological prowess, and the specific character of anti-Chinese racism in the United States. We also talked about how the crushing of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 signalled China's deepening integration into the US-led international order
Politics Theory Other //Covid-19 and transforming the global food system w/ Astra Taylor and Troy Vettese
July 19, 2020 07:31 - 36 minutes - 39.1 MBAstra Taylor and Troy Vettese join me to talk about their recent article in the Guardian in which they argue that the principal driver of zoonotic diseases is the factory farming of animals and that the covid19 pandemic shows that we need to transition away from a meat-centred global food system. We also talked about an article Troy co-wrote in Jacobin, entitled The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable.
Politics Theory Other // Corona, climate, chronic emergency w/ Andreas Malm
July 07, 2020 10:03 - 27 minutes - 28.8 MBAndreas Malm joins me to talk about his new book, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century. We talked about why in the case of Covid19 most of the rich countries of the north were able to make the kinds of decisive interventions that seem to elude them when it comes to climate change. And we also talked about the experience of the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war, and why war communism is a better model for the kind of mobilisation needed in the cl...
Politics Theory Other // The Romance of American Communism w/ Vivian Gornick
June 19, 2020 12:33 - 31 minutes - 32.4 MBVivian Gornick joins me to talk about her classic book, The Romance of American Communism. We spoke about her experience of growing up amongst communists and socialists in the Bronx in the 1930s, how she sought to counter simplistic depictions of the lives of American communists and how - in spite of its authoritarianism - the American Communist Party enabled ordinary men and women to feel connected to a larger human project.
Politics Theory Other // Black Lives Matter and racial capitalism w/ Nikhil Pal Singh
June 11, 2020 10:24 - 33 minutes - 32.3 MBNikhil Pal Singh joins me to discuss the massive protests against police violence in the United States that emerged in response to the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. We talked about why the protests are so large and so diverse and the movement's demands for the abolition or defunding of the police. We also talked about the concept of racial capitalism and how the right might seek to respond to the crisis of neoliberal legitimacy by pursuing policies that would seek to shore u...
Politics Theory Other // Triple shock in the global south - oil, debt, and Covid-19 w/ Adam Hanieh
May 30, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutes - 29.9 MBAdam Hanieh joins me to talk about the challenges Covid-19 and the debt crisis pose to countries in the global south, how western economic and military intervention has undermined state capacity needed to combat the pandemic, and finally we discussed Adam's argument that the crisis may paradoxically be in certain respects beneficial for the oil majors and the richest oil producing countries - in spite of last month's collapse in oil prices.
Politics Theory Other // A theory of extinction w/ Troy Vettese
May 20, 2020 08:27 - 36.1 MBTroy Vetesse joins me to discuss the sixth mass extinction event and how Karl Marx's concepts of real and formal subsumption are relevant to the ecological crisis. We also spoke about how the Covid19 pandemic illuminates Troy's argument. Our conversation was prompted by Troy's essay, 'A Marxist Theory of Extinction' from issue 7 of the journal Salvage.
Politics Theory Other // #86 After Geoengineering w/ Holly Buck
May 12, 2020 09:35 - 30 MBHolly Buck joins me to discuss her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. We talked about why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering to avert the worst of the climate crisis. We also discussed the question of whether climate change is innately difficult for human beings to comprehend, and whether avoiding the worst effects of climate change will entail moving beyond capitalism.
Politics Theory Other // Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste w/ Philip Mirowski
April 29, 2020 16:29 - 48.1 MBPhilip Mirowski, joins me to discuss why the Covid-19 pandemic is more opportunity than threat to neoliberals and whether - as in the wake of the financial crisis - neoliberal doctrines will survive, and even thrive in the wake of the coronavirus-induced global economic crisis. We also discussed how Philip defines neoliberalism and why the worst political and economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis are yet to come.
Politics Theory Other // Iran and the politics of a pandemic w/ Narges Bajoghli & Arron Merat
April 23, 2020 08:48 - 36.5 MBNarges Bajoghli and Arron Merat join me to discuss the coronavirus crisis in Iran, what the Covid-19 pandemic means for the stability of the Iranian regime, how US sanctions have compounded the suffering of ordinary Iranians, and what relations between China and Iran might look like after the end of the lockdown.
Politics Theory Other // A crisis like no other w/ Adam Tooze
April 05, 2020 07:51 - 32.6 MBAdam Tooze joins me to discuss what covid-19 means for the world economy, how the Trump administration has missed the boat on containing mass contagion in the United States, and why the row in the Eurozone over so-called coronabonds reveals an existential threat to the survival of the European Union.
Politics Theory Other // Coronavirus and the networked society w/ Will Davies
March 26, 2020 11:25 - 37.8 MBWill Davies joins me to discuss whether or not the coronavirus crisis heralds the break with neoliberal capitalism that many expected in the wake of the financial crisis, why the Anglo-American response to the covid-19 pandemic seems to differ from the response seen in mainland Europe and East Asia, and we also talked about how the media has covered the government's approach to the crisis.
Politics Theory Other // Italy under lockdown w/ Antonella Serrecchia & David Broder
March 11, 2020 19:46 - 28.3 MBMilan-based journalist Antonella Serrecchia, and Jacobin's Europe editor David Broder join me to discuss the lockdown in Italy - imposed by the Italian government in response to the escalation of the coronavirus outbreak. We discussed the pressure on the Italian health system, the economic consequences of the crisis, and how the far-right Lega have instrumentalised the situation for their anti-migrant politics