Haim Bresheeth-Zabner joins me to talk about his new book, 'An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation'. We discussed how the the Zionist project in Palestine depended upon the erasure of the culture of the Pre-WWII Jewish diaspora, why it is that Israeli military operations command near unanimous support within Israel, and how Israel's economy has become massively dependent on its military industrial complex and permanent conflict.

Read more about the book here:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3168-an-army-like-no-other

#95 The IDF - an army like no other w/ Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

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

David Graeber’s life and work leaves an indelible mark on thinkers and activists from London through New York, from Rojava to Quebec. To celebrate his life and work Novara Media are hosting a live stream with academics, activists, and politicians who have been influenced by, and who were an influence on, his intellectual endeavours and activist pursuits.



With:

Molly Crabapple
John McDonnell
David Wengrow
Dani Ellis 
Debbie Bookchin
Aaron Bastani
Grace Blakeley
Alpa Shah
Jeremy Corbyn 

Hosted by Ash Sarkar

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

David Graeber: A Celebration Of His Life

Richard Seymour joins PTO to discuss the recent anti-lockdown protests in London, the broader phenomenon of covid denialism, and whether the emergence of anti-political currents - combined with the left's decline with the defeat of the Corbyn project - is laying the basis for the emergence of fascism. We also talked about how Donald Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis might effect his electoral chances.

Teaser - PTO Extra! Anti-politics & Covid denialism w/ Richard Seymour

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

During Jeremy Corbyn’s time as Labour leader, much attention was part to the economic vision that the party developed for the United Kingdom, but less to his personal interest in the arts, and how that shaped both Labour’s cultural policy, and their programme as a whole. In this interview, Juliet talks to Jeremy about his interest in the socialist cultures that formed around the 20th century Labour Party and the Popular United government in Chile, the arts policies the party developed under his leadership, the concept of cultural democracy and his determination to unlock the creative potential of the UK’s young people, #Grime4Corbyn and Culture for Labour in the 2017 and 2019 election campaigns, what the reaction to his fondness for James Joyce’s Ulysses says about the British media, how socially engaged artists might react to the 2019 election defeat and the job losses amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, and plenty more.

A full list of references for the programme can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and is available to $3 subscribers.

Suite (212) - series 3

The Arts for All: An interview with Jeremy Corbyn

'Freedom is always and everywhere the freedom of dissenters.' So said Rosa Luxemburg, champion of revolutionary democracy and icon of socialist struggle. Since her murder in 1919, she has been discovered anew: as a champion of freedom of thought, a socialist martyr, a pioneer in ecological awareness,  a brilliant economic thinker, an icon for feminists and critic of conservative feminism, and above all a revolutionary for whom socialism and freedom were indissolubly linked. But admiration of Rosa often leaves her actual work unexamined. James Butler is joined by Dana Mills, author of a new critical biography of Luxemburg, to explore Red Rosa's life, thought and many legacies. James wrote about Luxemburg for Novara Media last year, on the centenary of her murder. https://novaramedia.com/?p=26428

Novara Media Podcast

#NovaraFM: After Barbarism: Rosa Luxemburg's Revolutionary Life

Improvisation On Viola With not Tape

Brett Christophers joins PTO to talk about his new book, Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? We chatted about the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy, why the concept of rentierisation is more useful and accurate than the notion of financialisation when talking about the trajectory of the UK and world economies, and we also talked about how and why entrepreneurialism and competitiveness are values that are taken up far more by ordinary people in the labour market than by UK business.

You can listen to the extended version of the episode by becoming a £3 supporter on patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/44326998

#103 Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? w/ Brett Christophers

The episode we should've done 4 years ago! After much soul searching, the boys get together to go over the basics of Marxism. We talk about Marx's life and the historical context, have a go at explaining dialectics, historical materialism, classes, freedom, alienation, the state, and of course proletarian revolution. Enjoy, comrades!

85. Deso does theory: introduction to Marxism.

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert explore the political power of desire from the storming of the Capitol to the millenarian strands of Corbynism, with music from Portishead and the Au Pairs.

Music: Portishead - Glory Box / Tricky - Makes Me Wanna Die / Alton McClain & Destiny - Crazy Love / Alternative TV - Love Lies Limp / The Au Pairs - It's Obvious

Books: Deleuze & Guattari - Anti-Oedipus / Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams / Spinoza - Theologico-Political Treatise / Wilhelm Reich - The Mass Psychology of Fascism / Nick Hornby - High Fidelity / Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man / Adkins, Konings & Cooper - The Asset Economy / Alex Williams - On Negative Solidarity and Post-Fordist Plasticity

Produced by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens.

#ACFM Trip 14: Desire

A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by Alex Doherty.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

Contact: politicstheoryother@gmail.com

#95 The IDF - an army like no other w/ Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

Politics Theory Other