What does the world look like from a Pan-Africanist perspective? Listen in as we discuss what it means to be "authentically" African and see the world from the vantage point of Africa.

Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada

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Haya Adam

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What is neoliberalism? What is the nature of US capitalism today? How does the dollar act as a function of US imperialism? Listen in to the brilliant Radhika Desai. 

Dr. Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month, and editor or co-editor of Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism, a special issue of International Critical Thought (2016), Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy (2015), Analytical Gains from Geopolitical Economy (2015), Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today’s Capitalism (2010) and Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009).

She is also the author of numerous articles in Economic and Political Weekly, International Critical Thought, New Left Review, Third World Quarterly, World Review of Political Economy and other journals and in edited collections on parties, political economy, culture and nationalism.

With Alan Freeman, she co-edits the Geopolitical Economy book series with Manchester University Press and the Future of Capitalism book series with Pluto Press.

She serves on the Editorial Boards of many journals including Canadian Political Science Review, Critique of Political Economy, E-Social Sciences, Pacific Affairs, Global Faultlines, Research in Political Economy, Revista de Economía Crítica, World Review of Political Economy and International Critical Thought

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What is the material basis of fascism? Listen in as Dr. Mullin masterfully details the political economy of fascism and how Palestine fits into US' current juncture of capitalist crisis.

Corinna Mullin is an anti-imperialist scholar who teaches political science and international political economy at John Jay College and Brooklyn College (CUNY). Corinna's research examines global South security dependency through a world system analytical framework, with a focus on colonial legacies, imperialism, unequal exchange and delinking. Corinna has also researched and published academic works on anti-/decolonial theory and praxis, the colonial-capitalist university, land and labor struggles.  Corinna is a member of  CUNY4Palestine and The Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran (CASI). She is on the Editorial Board of the journal Science & Society and is an Editor of Middle East Critique.

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What does an anti-imperialist position on the question of Syria sound like?

Max Ajl is a fellow at MECAM/University of Tunis, a Senior Fellow at University of Ghent and an associated researcher at the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment. He is an associate editor at Agrarian South and Journal of Labor and Society, and has written for The Journal of Peasant Studies and the Review of African Political Economy. His book, A People’s Green New Deal, was published in 2021 with Pluto Press.

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What does our present moment require from us? Listen in as Dr. Nina Farnia and I discuss the responsibility of those who live in the imperial core, particularly the US.

Nina Farnia is a law professor and legal historian whose research focuses on US imperialism and anti-imperialist dissidents. Her forthcoming book is entitled Imperialism: An American Story (Stanford University Press).

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Why is it the case that so many leftists in the West fail on the question of imperialism? Listen in as Professor Rockhill takes us through the problems with Western Marxism

Dr. Gabriel Rockhill is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique, Professor of Philosophy and Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University, and the author or editor of ten books, as well as numerous scholarly and general public articles. He is also the Associate Director of Cultural Studies at Villanova University, Research Associate at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique – LAP (EHESS, Paris), one of the editors-in-chief of the World Marxist Review, and co-editor of the book series AIM–Anti-Imperialist Marxism.

He has made numerous media appearance related to his scholarship and interventions in public debates. Click here to contact Dr. Rockhill for speaking engagements or interviews.

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Listen in to this super informative episode on Marx's methodology and place within the western philosophical canon

Colin Bodayle teaches philosophy at Villanova University. His main research areas are Marxism, Classical German Philosophy, and anti-colonial philosophy. You can find him on social media on Twitter

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In this episode we take a look at the life and work of Khalil Gibran

Listen in as we discuss how we build socialism whilst our subjectivities have been constituted under neoliberalism.

Arun Kundnani is a writer interested in race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism.

Born in London, he moved to New York in 2010 and now lives in Philadelphia. The Guardian has described him as “one of Britain’s best political writers.”

Kundnani is the author of What is Antiracism? (Verso, 2023), The Muslims are Coming! (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance (Pluto, 2007), which was selected as a New Statesman book of the year. He has written for the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Vice, and The Intercept.  A former editor of the journal Race & Class, he was educated at Cambridge University, and holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University. He has been an Open Society fellow and a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

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