/377/ The Locked-Up Country ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor

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…

/374/ You’re Gonna Need Representation ft. Vincent Bevins

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…

/367/ Don’t Pay Them Back ft. Jerome Roos

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…

UNLOCKED: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs

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…

/357/ Lucky, Meaty Nations ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor

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…

Excerpt: /352/ Cold War Marxism, East & West ft. Sean Sayers

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…

Excerpt: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs

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…

/339/ Erdogone? People vs Nation in Turkey ft. Alp Kayserilioglu

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?…

/228/ Three Articles: Popular Backlash in Chile, India, Europe

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…