Emma Dowling joins PTO to talk about her new book 'The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It'. We chatted about the scale of the care crisis today, how social reproduction theory can help us to make sense of the crisis, and we also talked about how conservatives conceive of care and of how they believe practices of care should be undertaken.

The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? w/ Emma Dowling

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

Robbie Shilliam joins PTO to talk about his article, 'Enoch Powell: Britain’s First Neoliberal Politician' which appeared in the New Political Economy Journal. We spoke about how Enoch Powell, far from being a political throwback was in fact a key figure in the emergence of neoliberalism and Thatcherism, and how his politics presaged the Brexit project. We also chatted about how Powell, in contrast to many conservatives became hostile to nostalgia for the British Empire and how he believed that an independent Britain, neither ruling an empire, nor becoming part of the embryonic European Union would find its proper place in the world.

Enoch Powell: Britain's first neoliberal politician w/ Robbie Shilliam

Who decides how we're governed? What can't a government do? And who gets to vote - or who doesn't? And where is it all written down? In a constitution, of course. At the end of the 18th century, in a time of war and revolution, a spate of constitution-writing broke out across the globe. They put limits on government, and gave citizens – mostly men, and very often white men – rights as well as duties. But why? What inspired their authors – and why did even some kings and emperors think them necessary? And why on earth doesn't Britain, almost alone among nations, have one? James Butler is joined by Linda Colley, Professor of History at Princeton, to explore the explosion of modern constitutionalism in a trip taking in Russia, France, Haiti – and asking, if Scotland goes, will England finally have to codify its constitution? And might that not be good for all of us? Linda Colley's book on the making of modern constitutions, The Gun, The Ship and The Pen is available now from Profile Books. https://novaramedia.com/?p=33228

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#NovaraFM: From War to Constitution - and the Problem of England

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My contribution to the Special Tape compilation put out by Nenormalizm Records made using the Colundi micro-tuning scale

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

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Anthropologist David Graeber's three interviews on This Is Hell!, talking about fun, bureaucracy and bullshit jobs. RIP David.

David Graeber on This Is Hell!

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

There is no more fundamental form of work than work that provides us with food. Yet most of us have only a vague sense of the round-the-clock work done to put food on our plates – which some workers say is like 'sacrificing your life' to feed the rest of society. Can that last? 

As part of Novara Media's Future of Work focus, Sophie Hemery and Craig Gent have been out talking to workers throughout the food supply chain, from dairy farmers to wholesale traders and grocers. They join James Butler in the studio. This work is supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (London Office). 

Our special thanks to Matt Huxley for his production work, and to 65daysofstatic for their music. 
https://novaramedia.com/?p=25885

Work All Day, Work All Night: 'Sacrificing Your Life' for the Food Supply Chain

'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

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

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