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Politics Theory Other

A podcast from Tribune magazine on radical politics, critical theory, and culture. Hosted by Alex Doherty. Patreon: Contact: politicstheoryother@gmail.com Tribune Radio:

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Excerpt - France's protest movement w/ Sebastian Budgen

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00:01:14Oct 23, 2026

Global South Redux w/ Ravinder Kaur

The term Global South has become ubiquitous in commentary on international affairs, but by the early 2000s middle and lower income countries...

00:36:38Oct 22, 2026

Posturing to the World - Britain's 'defence' budget w/ Khem Rogaly

In the midst of an ever increasing drumbeat of commentary predicting a major European war, and demands that military spending be increased t...

00:56:31Oct 15, 2026

The unmaking of the Chinese working class w/ Teemu Ruskola

Teemu Ruskola joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: How Communism Built a Capitalist Superpower'...

00:46:37Oct 8, 2026

Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the AI threat, the Sudan genocide, and the UK and Palestine

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00:02:33Oct 5, 2026

What the UK owes to Yemen w/ David Wearing

Between 2015 and 2022, a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states waged a devastating military campaign in Yemen, which - David Wearing argues in...

00:53:31Oct 1, 2026

Iran and Yemen - uniting the straits w/ Séamus Malekafzali

Séamus Malekafzali returns to PTO to talk about the possibility of further escalation in the US war on Iran and about the prospects for a di...

00:47:00Sep 24, 2026

Troop Movements w/ Tejasvi Nagaraja

In the popular imagination WWII is still often seen in both the United States and Britain as a moment of great national consensus, where pol...

01:32:46Sep 17, 2026

Certainty in uncertain times w/ Natasha Lennard

It's become commonplace to describe our current epoch in terms of "uncertain times", whether when talking about the Covid-19 pandemic, geopo...

01:13:39Sep 10, 2026

Interregnum - Living in the Pyrocene

Richard returns to talk about this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years...

00:41:13Sep 3, 2026

[UNLOCKED] James Meadway on the economic costs of heatwaves

James Meadway joins PTO to discuss the report he recently authored for the Verdant think tank on the economic costs of the recent UK heatwav...

00:31:40Aug 27, 2026

Purple state revolution? w/ Maurice Weeks

In the Wisconsin primary last week the socialist candidate Francesca Hong was narrowly defeated by her more centrist opponent. It's a result...

00:27:01Aug 20, 2026

PTO Extra! - James Meadway on the economic costs of heatwaves

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00:01:55Aug 18, 2026

Passing on the torch - Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine w/ Hamza Hamouchene

Although it's increasingly common to describe the Palestinian struggle for liberation in terms of a conflict with settler colonialism, it's...

00:56:28Aug 13, 2026

Losing control in the gulf w/ Paul Rogers

The conflict between the United States and Iran is now in its sixth month. In today's episode security expert Paul Rogers joins PTO to talk...

00:28:27Aug 6, 2026

Excerpt - Has Burnham's project failed before it's started? w/ Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour responds to listener questions on the politics of new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham. If you'd like to hear the rest of this...

00:00:51Jul 20, 2026

After Order? w/ Juliano Fiori

From rising geopolitical tensions, to the worsening climate situation, and from the Gaza genocide to hot wars that threaten to spill into gr...

01:16:57Jul 18, 2026

Excerpt - Daniel Trilling responds to listener questions

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00:03:23Jul 2, 2026

New York's rising socialist tide w/ Liza Featherstone

Liza Featherstone joins PTO to talk about the impressive primary victories for DSA-backed candidates in the New York primaries. We chatted a...

00:38:08Jun 27, 2026

Interregnum - Peace in the Gulf?

On the peace deal between Iran and the United States, which is expected to see the strait of Hormuz opened in exchange for a lifting of the...

00:44:42Jun 16, 2026