Melissa Gira Grant and Chardine Taylor Stone join PTO to discuss police and male violence and the murder of Sarah Everard. We talked about the importance of not seeing Wayne Couzen's role as a police officer as merely incidental to the murder of Everard and we also talked about why carceral feminist approaches that seek to combat male violence through the police and the courts are doomed to fail.  We also talked about the social media reaction to the initial vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham common and how the struggle against police violence and violence against women in general requires the building of a mass movement of collective struggle that cuts across different identities.

The entwinement of police and male violence w/ Melissa Gira Grant & Chardine Taylor Stone

Derick Varn is a podcaster (Pop The Left, Mortal Science), author, editor, poet, and part of the Zero Books staff. Derick is one of the most knowledgeable people on the left and is someone I highly recommend engaging with.

We discussed some of the influential thinkers and movements to emerge from 1968 France, their relevance to today, and more. 

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C Derick Varn - 1968 & Hearbreak

Bhaskar Sunkara joins me to talk about the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin and collusion between the far right and the police, whether the frightening prospect of a second Trump administration makes a rerun of the 2016 election result less likely - in spite of Joe Biden's underwhelming policy platform - and we also talked about the prospect of the American right breaking from its relative economic orthodoxy and moving towards advocacy of a meaningful industrial policy.

#96 Is Trump's America a failed state? w/ Bhaskar Sunkara

Lola Olufemi joins PTO to talk about her new book, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power.  We chatted about the history of black feminist organising, the problem with mainstream liberal feminism, and the generational divide in feminist circles over trans rights.

#98 Feminism, Interrupted w/ Lola Olufemi

The votes are still being counted, but it now looks certain that Joe Biden will be the next president of the USA. Despite the predictions of liberal pundits, though, the Biden landslide didn't emerge. Why? What does the US look like after four years of Trump? Has American political culture changed – and is it permanent? And what hope does the fledgling left in the US have? James Butler is joined by two leading writers and theorists of the American left, JoAnn Wypijewski and Vivek Chibber, to answer those questions. 

JoAnn's latest book, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo, is available from Verso Books. The two essays discussed in the episode can be found online: 'The Politics of Insecurity' at the New Left Review, and on the politics of the Brett Kavanaugh appointment at the Verso website. Vivek Chibber's work on class politics can be found at Catalyst. 
https://novaramedia.com/?p=27339

Novara Media Podcast

#NovaraFM: After Trump

You're probably tired of hearing about 'fake news.' You probably think everything that needs to be said about it has been said. What if you were wrong? What if those arguments had barely scratched the surface? James Butler is joined by Marcus Gilroy-Ware to delve behind the facade of fake news and uncover what lies beneath: from a hollowed-out democracy, to the clash of reason and emotion, to the question of conspiracy theory – and what it might really tell us. 

Marcus Gilroy-Ware's After the Fact: The Truth About Fake News is available now. https://novaramedia.com/?p=27624

#NovaraFM: Maelstrom: Politics in the Post-Truth World

Everyone's heard about the rise of the robots: they're going to put us out of jobs, Skynet is going to usher in a miserable dystopia, or a friendly AI will automate everything we hate, freeing us to live a life of luxury. But what if both of these accounts are wrong? A deeper look at the actual consequences of automation might suggest something quite different is happening. The gains in productivity automation is supposed to make don't appear: a decade of stagnation tells us quite otherwise. So what have the automation theorists got wrong? And if the robots aren't going to usher in utopia, how might we build it with our own hands? James Butler is joined by Aaron Benanav, author of Automation and the Future of Work, to discuss. Endnotes has recently published an account of the 2019-20 'non-movements' on its website. https://novaramedia.com/?p=29114

#NovaraFM: After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia

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Philosophy vs Hot Lead (FULL LENGTH)

Every election we hear of the "care crisis" as if it's about to explode. But care affects us all, and not just in election cycles. And rather than an explosion, the reality of care in the UK looks more like the slow and gradual erosion of the fabric of social provision. But why is care in crisis? Who does care work in Britain? Why are big corporations and financiers so interested in it? How does this all track back to the financial crisis? And who will take care of us when we need it? Emma Dowling joins James Butler to explain. 

Emma Dowling's book, The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?, is out now from Verso Books. Some of the voices at the beginning of the show are drawn from interviews made last year by Novara Media reporters. You can hear them in full in our deep dive into care work, politics and organising: 'Tired From the Heart': Voices of the Care Sector.

   https://novaramedia.com/?p=29891

#NovaraFM: Capital, Care and Crisis

Micah Uetricht joins us to talk about Mike Davis's project and, accordingly, how his writings map on to some interesting rifts inside the socialist movement today. 

Find Micah's essay here: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-old-gods-set-night/

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Mike Davis and the Socialist Project w/ Micah Uetricht

We all dream of a better world. In fact, all politics of emancipation – all serious politics of the left – is rooted in claims about a better world and a vision of the future. Why, then, do so many leftists disdain "making recipes for the cookshops of the future"? Did Marx really think we couldn't – or shouldn't – think of a new world? And what lessons might this argument have for liberation movements today? Peter Hudis has written on Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, and is general editor of the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg. He joins James Butler to explore the relationship of alienation to the way we think about the future, Marx's humanism, and what connects a 19th century anarchist with today's mealy-mouthed social democratic tinkerers. https://novaramedia.com/?p=31404