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'...
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Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the AI threat, the Sudan genocide, and the UK and Palestine
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
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...
PTO Extra! - James Meadway on the economic costs of heatwaves
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Excerpt - Daniel Trilling responds to listener questions
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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...
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...
Heatwave politics w/ Adrienne Buller
Last month the UK was hit by a record-breaking heatwave, part of a wider climate event that affected much of Europe, whilst a subsequent and...
The rise of the UK far-right w/ Daniel Trilling
For decades in much of Europe far-right opinion has had electoral expression in political parties that can command millions of votes, but un...
China and the US - a durable thaw? w/ Tobita Chow and Jake Werner
China experts Tobita Chow and Jake Werner join PTO to talk about the recently concluded summit in Beijing between the United States and the...