Politics Theory Other

This week I’m joined by Alex Nunns, author of The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power to discuss the Labour Party after the local elections, the balance of power within the PLP, and the prospects for a new centrist party.

This week I'm joined by Catherine Rottenberg to discuss her work on neoliberal feminism. We talked about the work of neoliberal feminists Sheryl Sandberg and Anne-Marie Slaughter, the role of neoliberal feminism in legitimating Western imperialism, and the meaning of the #MeToo movement.

This week I'm joined by Will Davies to discuss the Windrush scandal, neoliberal governmentality, and the politics of the British Home Office.

This week I'm joined by David Broder to discuss last month's Italian elections, the decline of the political centre and the rise of the populist right, and the prospects for the Italian left.

This week I'm joined by Patricia Reed to discuss the Manifesto on Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation, which Patricia co-authored as a member of the Laboria Cuboniks collective. You can read the manifesto here: http://www.laboriacuboniks.net/

This week I'm joined by Dr. Jamie Allinson to discuss the current situation in Syria, the recent Western air strikes, the role of the Kurdish YPG, and the significance of Iranian and Russian backing for the Assad regime.

This week I'm joined by Richard Seymour, author of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, to discuss left anti-semitism, the media's campaign against Corbyn, and the role of Israel-Palestine in the affair. Richard recently wrote a long read on the subject for Jacobin magazine: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-jewdas