https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wtwf3-f45ea2 CLR James’s electrifying 1938 history of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, has long been a staple of many radicals’ libraries. But we now know a lot more about the life of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture.…
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/147/ The Past Doesn’t Go Away ft. Benjamin Moser
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6xh85-eb8c54 On modernism and its end. We're joined by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser to discuss the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind, and the effacement of national culture by postmodern homogenisation. We…
/121/ Those Murdering Bastards ft. Vincent Bevins
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
/121/ Those Murdering Bastards ft. Vincent Bevins
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
Excerpt: /95/ Three Articles
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…
/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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/51/ Oh, Brazil: What Now?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7gtt8-9deaf4 In which we update the latest from Brazil, post-election. What will Bolsonaro's government look like? We plot best & worst case scenarios and discuss how bad this really is (really, really bad). And is "fascism" the correct term to…
/48/ Ultra-Politics in Brazil ft. Sabrina Fernandes
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ikn28-9b76fc In which we preview Brazil's election in which democracy itself is at stake. Who is Bolsonaro and why should Bolsonaro be understood as a neofascist? We discuss the #EleNão feminist resistance and the backdrop of 'antipetismo'. How has the…
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/41/ The Colombian Exception ft. Pablo Uribe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wmeej-9407ec In which we discuss how the Right won this month's election -- in a country that has never seen the Left in power. Is Colombia an exception? The civil war there feels like part of the Cold War that…
/32/ Brazil Moves Right? ft. Sabrina Fernandes
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2gi47-8e4293 In which we ask who killed Marielle Franco & discuss the shooting at Lula's caravan + Brazil's absent center