The Fire These Times Against Multipolar Imperialism w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski (Rerun)
For this rerun episode, Elia Ayoub is joined by Kavita Krishnan, an Indian Marxist and Feminist who used to be a politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation who resigned over Ukraine. He is also joined by Promise Li, a US-based Hong Konger organizer and part of the Left diaspora collective Lausan. Co-hosting this episode is Romeo Kokriatski, a Ukrainian-American journalist, managing editor of the New Voice of Ukraine and co-host of the Ukraine Without Hype podcast.
The topic: why the idea of multipolarity needs to be understood & critiqued, and why the left cannot abandon anti-authoritarianism and internationalism.
Note: Due to Russia's ongoing bombardments of Ukraine, Romeo's power went out towards the end of the episode so we had to continue without him.
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Links:
- My piece for Lausan Collective: The periphery has no time for binaries
- Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India by Angana P. Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen and Christophe Jaffrelot (recommended by Kavita Krishnan)
- Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets: Facing the Liquidity Tsunami by Ilias Alami (recommended by Promise Li)
- Regular updates on India can be found on The India Cable
Previous episodes with Romeo Kokriatski:
- Anti-Imperialism From the Periphery w/ Leila Al Shami & Dana El Kurd
- When War Gets Normalized, Or What’s At Stake in Ukraine w/ Mariam Naiem
- Ukraine Series: 2. From Ukraine, with Love (and Anger)
- Russian Imperialism, Cynical Discourse and Life Amidst War w/ Mariam Naiem
- A View on Ukraine, Hong Kong & Tiananmen, from Taiwan w/ Wen Liu & Brian Hioe
Previous episodes with Promise Li:
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Credits:
Hosts: Elia Ayoub and Romeo Kokriatski | Guests: Kavita Krishnan and Promise Li | Producer: Elia Ayoub | Music: Rap and Revenge | Main theme design: Wenyi Geng | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub.