A World to Win with Grace Blakeley

Grace speaks to Alexander Zevin, assistant professor of history at City University of New York, an editor at New Left Review, and author of Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist. We tackle a host of interesting questions this week, including: What is liberalism? Is it in crisis? And where next for the liberal rules-based world order?

Find the book Liberalism at Large here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3090-liberalism-at-large (https://www.versobooks.com/books/3090-liberalism-at-large)

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Grace speaks to Amelia Horgan, philosophy PhD candidate researching the politics of work and author of Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism. We discuss the changing nature of work in the UK and around the world, how these trends have been impacted by the pandemic, and whether it’s possible to imagine "good work" under capitalism.

(Note there was an occasional snag in our guest's sound because of some internet trouble.)

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This week, Grace speaks with Jason W. Moore, environmental historian and professor of sociology at Binghamton University, about capitalism and climate breakdown. They discuss his brilliant books, Capitalism in the Web of Life and Capitalocene or Anthropocene?, and ask what Marx can teach us about the multiple, overlapping ecological crises our planet is currently facing.

Find Jason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/oikeios (https://twitter.com/oikeios)

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This week, Grace talks to Hadas Thier about her excellent book A People’s Guide to Capitalism, in which she provides a concise and readable introduction to Marxist thought. They discuss key concepts like capital, class, and imperialism, and apply them to the current crisis gripping the capitalist world system.

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Grace speaks to Kate Aronoff, staff writer at The New Republic and the author of the excellent new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet and How We Fight Back. She’s also the co-author of We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism, American Style, and A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. They discuss Biden’s climate plan, the Green New Deal, and whether fossil fuel executives should be tried for crimes against humanity.

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This week, Grace talks to Palestinian activist Akram Salhab on his experience living and organising in Palestine, what's going on in Sheikh Jarrah, and the heroic efforts of Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation – as well as what socialists around the world can do to support them.

The full episode is available here, and we encourage our listeners to donate to charities supporting Palestinians on the ground. You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians at https://www.map.org.uk/ (https://www.map.org.uk/)

In a week during which Keir Starmer’s Labour tanked in the local elections, I speak to two brilliant local leaders who managed to defy this trend. Matthew Brown is leader of Preston City Council and the driving force behind the Preston Model, as well as the co-author of Paint Your Town Red, which you can buy now from Repeater Books. Paul Dennett is the city-mayor of Salford, and frequent contributor to Tribune, including a recent piece on why socialist Salford bucked the trend in the recent elections.

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Grace talks to Alex Press, staff writer at Jacobin, about Amazon’s ruthless exploitation of its workforce, its deeply embedded culture of union busting, and its avoidance of basic labour regulation in its mission to become the "everything store" — as well as how workers are coming together to resist the company.

Check out some of Alex's recent articles at Jacobin about unions and Amazon:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/joe-biden-100-days-labor-movement-unions-pro-act

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/amazon-jeff-bezos-union-busting-workers-organize

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/amazon-warehouses-fulfillment-centers-unionize-vote-rwdsu

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Grace talks to Harsha Walia, author, writer and organiser, on her book Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. They discuss the nature and location of the border, its functionality to global capitalism and imperialism, and how the left can organise to resist right-wing populism in the age of nationalism and climate breakdown.

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This week, Grace talks to Mat Lawrence, director of the think tank Common Wealth, and Laurie Layborn Langton, author and researcher, about their new book Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown. They discuss the multiple overlapping ecological, economic, and political crises the world is facing in the era of climate breakdown, the rise of eco-fascism, and how the left should respond.

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