https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-68vzv-c74c0e This is a sample. Go to Patreon for the full episode. On Bolivia, Macron, Randian Chile. In this month's 'Three Articles' - in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack - we…
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/95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4hgb-c66aaa Rojava offered the hope that a progressive, multiethnic politics might be salvaged from the ashes of Syria’s civil war. Now the Turkish assault on northern Syria looks set to crush the Kurds and a radical experiment in the region. We talk…
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Excerpt: /94/ Reading Club 2: Anti-Politics
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4779-c57291 In our second Reading Club, we discuss Eliane Glaser's Anti-Politics (Repeater, 2018) and take readers questions and contributions. Readings: Anti-Politics: On the Demonization of Ideology, Authority and the State, Repeater For access to this and other bonus episodes, become…
/93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eeph3-c481cf On Argentina's elections and Chile & Ecuador's revolts. Macri's election was heralded by the right across the continent as the end to a sequence of centre-left governments in South America. Now only four years later, he is likely to…
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/92/ Three Articles
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tdiys-c36143 A new format in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack. This week we take a sharp look at the crumbling US political establishment and its empire: impeachment and regime legitimacy;…
/91/ Exhaustion Revealing ft. Leigh Phillips
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cbfcn-c2d83b On environmental protest politics. Extinction Rebellion and the Climate Strike have brought eco protest back to the front pages. But it all seems a bit of a flashback to the 2000s. We examine the protests' alarmism and post-political positioning.…
Excerpt: /90/ Work, Bitch ft. Amber A’Lee Frost
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9yrn5-c1e5cc On UBI and social reproduction. Following on from ep. 88 where we discussed post-work with Anton Jäger, we have Amber on to talk about her recent article in Jacobin on Andrew Yang's proposals for a Universal Basic Income.…
/89/ On the Lam: Hong Kong Rebels ft. Toby Carroll
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gud7e-c0ec36 On the Hong Kong rebellion. Four months of protests is forcing a confrontation with the Hong Kong authorities and the Chinese state. The demands are for civil liberties and some more democracy - but what are the social conditions…
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Excerpt: /88/ Vouchers for Toxicity ft. Anton Jäger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rda95-c0088e On post-work. We discuss Anton's review of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and why it seems to have such appeal, even amongst elites. There is a crisis in the work ethic, but is it an error to counterpose work and leisure and…
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/83/ Now It’s Syrizous [UNLOCKED]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ikfyj-bf230e Syriza lost the last Greek elections after 4 1/2 years in power. What happened to a party that, for a time, represented the European radical left's hopes? Did it achieve anything in power? Many talk about Tspiras' "betrayal" -…
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