A World to Win with Grace Blakeley

This week, Grace talks to Briahna Joy Gray, Bernie Sanders' former Press Secretary and host of the Bad Faith podcast, and Matt Karp, Jacobin contributing editor and associate professor of history at Princeton University. As the results continued to roll in throughout the day on Wednesday, Grace discussed with her guests the roots of the Biden landslide that never was, and where the left should go next.

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This week, Grace talks to newly elected Labour MP for Coventry South and member of the Socialist Campaign Group Zarah Sultana about the the Tories’ attempts to impose the costs of the pandemic on those least able to bear it, the lessons the left can learn from Corbynism, and why we need to fight for a transformative global Green New Deal in the wake of this crisis.

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This week, Grace is joined by Raquel Rolnik, former Minister under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, author of the brilliant book Urban Warfare, and currently Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paolo. They discuss the rise of Bolsanaro, the looming evictions crisis in Brazil, the UK and around the world, and the struggle to build a global tenants' movement.

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This week, Grace is joined by Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Fein, to discuss the issues that drove the party's dramatic rise in this year’s general election, the impact of the pandemic on the Irish economy, and Sinn Fein’s proposals for a unification poll in the event of a no deal Brexit.

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This week, Grace talks to Rob Davies, senior figure in the South African Communist Party and former South African Minister for Trade and Industry. They discuss the impact of COVID-19 on South Africa and the rest of the Continent, the hegemony of the ANC over South African politics, and the challenges of developing an industrial strategy in a highly financialised, highly unequal, semi-perhipheral economy.

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Grace speaks to the legendary philosopher, activist, author and artist Dr Cornel West about Black Lives Matter and the US elections, socialist spirituality and culture, American imperial power and the seeds of liberation to be found in the idea of radical democracy.

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This week, Grace is joined by academic, activist and left legend Naomi Klein to discuss the US elections, the case for the Green New Deal, and whether the world is about to face another lesson in the politics of the shock doctrine.

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This week, Grace talks to Meagan Day – staff writer at Jacobin Magazine and co-author of 'Bigger than Bernie: How we go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism' – about the US presidential elections, the economic and environmental crises currently sweeping through America and the future of the Left after Bernie.

Today Grace speaks to Astra Taylor, Jerome Roos and James Schneider about their memories of the brilliant anthropologist and activist David Graeber, who tragically died last week.

This week, Grace Blakeley is joined by Walden Bello, academic, author, human rights campaigner to discuss the history of the Philippines, his opposition to the brutal Marcos dictatorship, his longstanding campaigning against US imperialism and neoliberal globalisation, and how Covid-19 is affecting the Philippines.