A World to Win with Grace Blakeley

This week, Adele Walton speaks with George Monbiot, political journalist and author of This Can't Be Happening. They discuss how the Tories are cracking down on democracy with new policing legislation—and how people might resist this authoritarian "step over the brink."You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowinpod (https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Adele Walton speaks with Rupa Marya and Raj Patel about their new book Inflamed. They discuss how the system of colonial capitalism reproduces health inequalities globally and how we ought to transform health care and medicine for health justice.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Adele Walton, filling in for Grace Blakeley, speaks with Asad Rehman, director of War on Want and organiser for climate, racial, economic and social justice. They discuss how global inequality is reproduced by colonial legacies, the impact of structural adjustment plans, and the need for an anticolonial climate justice movement.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron at patreon.com/aworldtowinpod (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace speaks to David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and the author of a brilliant new book, with the brilliant late David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything. In this episode, David and Grace talk about literally everything—human history, human nature, and how to change the world.You can support our work on the show by subscribing to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod), where you'll get access to full-length versions of the interviews. Thanks to producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust (https://www.lipman-miliband.org.uk/) for making this episode possible.

Grace speaks to Neil Vallelly, author of Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness. They discuss the role of utilitarian thinking in the development of capitalism, how utilitarianism has collapsed into "futilitarianism," and the impact this pervasive sense of futility is having on our sense of individual and collective wellbeing.You can support our work on the show by subscribing to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod), where you'll get access to full-length versions of the interviews. Thanks to producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust (https://www.lipman-miliband.org.uk/) for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace speaks to Chris Saltmarsh, co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal and author of Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice. We discuss what the Green New Deal should look like, who should pay for it, and how we should mobilise to win it.You can support our work on the show by subscribing to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod), where you'll get access to full-length versions of the interviews. Thanks to producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust (https://www.lipman-miliband.org.uk/) for making this episode possible.

Grace speaks to Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Buffalo about her new book Ending Fossil Fules: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough. They discuss the meaning of net zero, the different trajectories we might use to get there, and how these different paths might ease or exacerbate other ecological, social and political challenges the world faces today.You can support our work on the show by subscribing to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod), where you'll get access to full-length versions of the interviews. Thanks to producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust (https://www.lipman-miliband.org.uk/) for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace speaks to Phil Jones, researcher at Autonomy and author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism. They discuss whether what we refer to as automation actually relies on the proliferation of poorly paid microwork around the world, who does this work under what conditions, and how workers can start to organise to resist their exploitation at the hands of some of the most powerful companies in the world.You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to producer Sarah Hurd for filling in this week and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust (https://www.lipman-miliband.org.uk/) for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace speaks to Senator Nina Turner, the former Ohio Senator and Democratic Nominee for Ohio Secretary of State who also served as co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Presidential Campaign. Grace spoke to Senator Turner at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton about organising within the Democratic Party, the future of the US left under Biden, and what lessons we can all learn from the defeats of the past few years—as well as how to make sure we don’t give up hope.You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron at patreon.com/aworldtowinpod (https://patreon.com/aworldtowinpod), where you'll also get access to full versions of the interviews.A production note: Because of a technical issue, we had to switch to an imperfect back-up recording about twenty minutes into the episode.

Grace speaks to Geoff Mann, Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University and author of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution and, with Joel Wainwright, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. They discuss capitalism, state power and climate breakdown, whether the pandemic has ended neoliberalism, and why democracy is so important to anti-capitalist struggle today.You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron at patreon.com/aworldtowinpod (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod), where you'll also get access to full versions of the interviews.