https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-a7cnf-1576e99 On Indonesia: a country without a Left. Foremost scholar of Indonesian politics and political economy, Vedi Hadiz of the University of Melbourne, joins us to talk through the country's politics in advance of the elections next week. What…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gdvfw-150dbff On Australia's lockdown. We welcome back Shahar Hameiri and Tom Chodor to talk about their new book, The Locked-Up Country, to try to learn some lessons from Australia's response to Covid-19. We also talk about the country's recent…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-b4m2c-14f006a On a decade of protest around the world. Journalist Vincent Bevins is back on the podcast to talk about his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. We discuss the 2010s protest…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gnpfv-14c915b On sovereign debt and taking back control. The leading candidate in Argentina's election this month wants to avoid defaulting on the country's debt at all costs. But back in 2001, after a mass revolt, Argentina reneged on its…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-btjba-14ac2da On the radical right in the global periphery. [This was originally a Patreon Exclusive] Erdogan, Modi, Orban, Bolsonaro, Duterte. Though the latter two are gone, the first three are still going strong, in government for a decade or…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vyt2m-147f49e On Australian and New Zealand at the End of History. Antipodean political scientists Shahar Hameiri and Tom Chodor join us to discuss the history and politics of Australia and New Zealand. If Australia is the “lucky country”, what…
Read More /357/ Lucky, Meaty Nations ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3ay8n-145b314 On China, Russia, the US and UK.Professor Emeritus and one of the founders of ‘Radical Philosophy’, Sean Sayers, joins us to talk about Marxist philosophy, how it’s developed and changed over the course of the twentieth century and into…
Read More Excerpt: /352/ Cold War Marxism, East & West ft. Sean Sayers
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-d7wyh-145246f On the radical right in the global periphery. [Patreon Exclusive] Erdogan, Modi, Orban, Bolsonaro, Duterte. Though the latter two are gone, the first three are still going strong, in government for a decade or more. What unites…
Read More Excerpt: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2s757-1405a2f On Turkey's elections. Alp Kayserilioglu joins us to talk about a crucial election. Erdogan’s rule is seriously threatened for the first time, with high inflation biting into living standards. Who are the main candidates and do what they propose?…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dk27v-113c640 On people power on three continents. We discuss Chile's landmark elections, the first after the uprising of 2019-20, which see a face-off between left and far-right; Modi's repeal of controversial laws that provoked a huge mobilisation of farmers in…
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