On Brazil's elections and the military.
A month away from the first round showdown between former president Lula and current president Jair Bolsonaro, lawyer, podcaster and communist Alcysio ...
2022-09-05 18:36:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a short announcement about what's coming up, while we're off on summer holidays
2022-08-30 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Part two on Syria, Ukraine...and privilege.
We continue our chat with Stefan, who was an international volunteer in Rojava. How much actual difference can foreigners...
2022-08-16 13:54:08 +0000 UTC View Post
On Rojava and Ukraine.
We talk to Stefan Bertram-Lee, former volunteer fighter for the the YPG in Rojava, about whom a Hollywood movie is being made. We ask him about the type of person who ...
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With European liberals waving Ukraine flags, how might the war and escalating geopolitical tensions between major power be prompting a return to nationalism and patriotism...
2022-08-09 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On our financialised world.
We talk to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou about his new book, 2022-08-02 17:18:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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On 40 years of neoliberalism.
The continuation of our interview with Fritz Bartel plus the After Party. We discuss 1973-1979 as the beginning of the End of History a...
2022-07-26 06:05:59 +0000 UTC View Post
On the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism.
Fritz Bartel talks to us about his new book in which the 1970s crisis and its aftermath takes centre-stage. How did the response to t...
2022-07-26 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJust a reminder that our next Reading Club recording will be this week, on Thursday.
We'll be discussing 'How Marx invented the symptom' by Slavoj Zizek, the first chapter from The ...
2022-07-25 19:18:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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On reviews of our book, The End of the End of History
A year since the book came out, and two years since we finished writing it, we take a look at publishe...
2022-07-19 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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On your questions & criticisms.
We discuss the link between Covid and war in Ukraine and return to the question of who exactly is the ruling class. Plus: inflati...
2022-07-12 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
On abortion.
After the US Supreme Court ruling, where does this leave women in the US? Political theorist Alex Gourevitch joins us to discuss Roe v Wade, and how the fact it rooted abortion i...
2022-07-05 14:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostJust to let you all know that the recording of the June RC has been delayed till 5 July, so you have until then to send in your questions regarding Andreas Malm's Climate, Corona, Chronic Emerg...
2022-06-28 13:05:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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On the post-Soviet landscape.
In the part two of this episode, we ask whether Gorbachev had any chance of reforming and preserving the USSR, and what the defining fe...
2022-06-28 06:02:59 +0000 UTC View Post
On the endgame to war in Ukraine.
Eminent Russian expert, Putin and Gorbachev biographer and ex-Sovietologist, Prof Richard Sakwa, joins us in advance of his imminent retirement from the Univ...
2022-06-28 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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On the whatever decade.
People are turning back to reinterpret the 1990s. Clearly, they were peak End of History years. But does that mean that no politics actually ...
2022-06-21 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe last RC of the Emergency Politics section will be recorded next Wednesday 29 June.
We'll be discussing Andreas Malm's 2022-06-20 17:39:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Edited video of Munich book launch & discussion. Chaired by Bernhard Pirkl.
2022-06-10 13:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Edited video of Berlin book launch & discussion. Chaired by Isabella
2022-06-10 13:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post
If the End of History was characterised by post-politics, and the 'populist decade' of the 2010s dominated by anti-politics, then how should we understand more recent phenomena? Are the following o...
2022-06-10 10:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The crumbling of the liberal, technocratic order over the past decade has led to a variety of hysterical reactions from the establishment. Faced with new challenges to their authority, they have re...
2022-06-10 10:46:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight (8 June) at 7pm, Alex Hochuli will be talking about 'Ruling Class Hysteria' in Berlin. He'll be joined by David Broder (Jacobin) and Isabella Zamboni (Spik...
2022-06-08 13:02:47 +0000 UTC View Post
[Live events in Germany: Berlin / 2022-06-07 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On crumbling state authority.
Benjamin Fogel is back on the podcast to talk us through how South Africa has gone from the hopes of post-apartheid to the Durban riots of 2021. How have c...
2022-05-31 11:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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On the economic drivers and political choices of inflation.
In the absence of workers demanding higher wages, where is inflation coming from? Is there more to ...
2022-05-24 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Alex will be speaking at two live events in Germany, in honour of the publication of the German edition of our book, "2022-05-23 15:49:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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On your comments & criticisms.
We tackle ideological realignments over the use of history; conspiracy theorising; a game-show called The Last True Marxist 2022-05-19 19:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode is late. Sorry. It'll be with you by Thursday. Send hate mail if you wish (this week's episode is us discussing your hate mail.)
2022-05-17 18:53:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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On History and futurelessness.
We continue our discussion with Matthew Karp about his essay, "2022-05-10 06:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On liberals' embrace of the past and history wars.
We talk to Matthew Karp about his essay, " 2022-05-10 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post