A World to Win with Grace Blakeley

This week, Grace talks to Ian Lavery MP, former Chair of the Labour Party, and Laura Smith, former MP for Crewe and Nantwitch, about their new project No Holding Back, which you can find online at https://noholdingback.org.uk (https://noholdingback.org.uk/) and on Twitter @NBack20 (https://twitter.com/nback20). We discuss whether the Labour Party is still the party of the working classes, the likely impact of Brexit on the UK, and how the left can rebuild trust with communities across the country in the wake of the pandemic.

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This week, in a special episode of A World to Win, we remember the brilliant Marxist thinker, activist and public intellectual Leo Panitch. Grace talks to Max Shanly, socialist strategist and organiser and long time friend of Leo's, and Sam Gindin, former director of research for the Canadian Auto Workers Union and Leo's long time collaborator, including on his magnum opus The Making of Global Capitalism.

Several of Leo's books - including the Making of Global Capitalism and Searching for Socialism - are available on the Verso website, and many of his essays are available for free through the Socialist Register website: https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv

This week, Grace talks to Vijay Prashad, head of the Tricontinenatal Institute for Social Research and author of Washington Bullets: A history of the CIA, Coups and Assassinations. They discuss the recent wave of strikes taking place across India, the rise of the far right in India and across the world, and the mechanisms through which imperial power is exercised in the global economy today - including the use of investor state dispute settlements by international investors to sue governments over their responses to the pandemic.

This week, Grace talks to Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazine and author of The Socialist Manifesto: The case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality. They discuss the events currently taking place in the US, as white supremacists and far right extremists storm the Capitol after the Democrats took control of the Senate in the wake of the victory of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia on Wednesday 6th January - as well as how the US left can work to build a class coalition that can resist the mounting threat of right-wing violence.

This week, Grace talks to Ana Kasparian, host and executive producer for The Young Turks and now host of Jacobin’s Weekends series. We discuss the media landscape in the US and the importance of alternative media to the socialist movement, the progress towards a stimululs package in the US and how progressives should relate to a Biden presidency.

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This week, Grace talks to Owen Hatherley, Tribune’s culture editor and author of many books, including his most recent Red Metropolis: Socialism and the government of London. We discuss municipal socialism, regional and class inequality in the UK, and the future of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.

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This week Grace is joined by Sa’eed Husaini, socialist activist and contributor to Africa is a Country and Jacobin Magazine, who recently completed a PhD at the University of Oxford and is now living and working in Lagos, Nigeria. We discuss the recent #EndSARS protests, the economic and health impact of COVID 19 in Nigeria, and the history and future of the Nigerian left. 

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This week, Grace is joined by Pablo Bustinduy, former Podemos representative for Madrid in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, to discuss the impact of the pandemic on Spain’s fragile economy, the challenges posed by the evolution of Podemos from movement-party into coalition government, and the economic, political and social shifts taking place as a result of the pandemic.

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This week I am joined by Andy Burnham, former Labour MP and current Labour mayor of Greater Manchester. We talk about the impact that COVID-19 has had on the North of England, what cities like Manchester are doing to tackle climate breakdown and the housing crisis, and why the left needs to embrace a socialist devolution agenda.

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This week, Grace speaks to Rutger Bregman, historian, author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind, and scourge of the tax avoiding corporate elite at Davos, about human nature, capitalism and the 24 hour news cycle.

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