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Jeremy Gilbert joins PTO to discuss why the Corbyn and Sanders projects ultimately foundered. We talked about the significance of personality and strategy versus deeper historical tendencies, and why the Corbyn leadership seemed to prefer a critique of austerity to a broader attack on the neoliberal era. Our discussion was prompted by Jeremy's article in Open Democracy, 'We lost because we weren’t big enough'.

UNLOCKED: Jeremy Gilbert on the defeat of the Anglo-American left (part one)

With the UK Office of National Statistics reporting that covid-19 related deaths in the UK have exceeded 100,000, PTO spoke to Richard Seymour about why the UK government's covid response has been so disastrous. We also talked about why the UK vaccination has not been characterised by the vacillation and delay that has been associated with so much else of the British government's reaction to the pandemic. And finally we talked about impact of the covid crisis on the prospects for the breaking up of the union and the likelihood of Scottish independence.

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UNLOCKED: Jeremy Gilbert on the defeat of the Anglo-American left (part one)

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