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Excerpt - France's protest movement w/ Sebastian Budgen
October 23, 2026 · 1 minTo listen to this episode of PTO Extra! please consider becoming a £5 patron of the show at patreon.com/poltheoryother
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Global South Redux w/ Ravinder Kaur
October 22, 2026 · 37 minThe term Global South has become ubiquitous in commentary on international affairs, but by the early 2000s middle and lower income countries were more frequently described as belonging to the developing world or - in the case of those…
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Posturing to the World - Britain's 'defence' budget w/ Khem Rogaly
October 15, 2026 · 57 minIn the midst of an ever increasing drumbeat of commentary predicting a major European war, and demands that military spending be increased to meet the threat posed by Russia, Khem Rogaly joins PTO to talk about the UK defence budget. We…
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The unmaking of the Chinese working class w/ Teemu Ruskola
October 8, 2026 · 47 minTeemu Ruskola joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: How Communism Built a Capitalist Superpower'. We talked about how China's remarkable economic rise was facilitated by the state's socialist…
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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
October 1, 2026 · 54 minBetween 2015 and 2022, a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states waged a devastating military campaign in Yemen, which - David Wearing argues in today's episode - was so severe that it resembles Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza. A key role…
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Iran and Yemen - uniting the straits w/ Séamus Malekafzali
September 24, 2026 · 47 minSéamus Malekafzali returns to PTO to talk about the possibility of further escalation in the US war on Iran and about the prospects for a diplomatic settlement. We chatted about the position of the Gulf states, and recent comments from…
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Troop Movements w/ Tejasvi Nagaraja
September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 33 minIn the popular imagination WWII is still often seen in both the United States and Britain as a moment of great national consensus, where political differences and class struggle were set aside in the cause of defeating European Fascism and…
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Certainty in uncertain times w/ Natasha Lennard
September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minIt's become commonplace to describe our current epoch in terms of "uncertain times", whether when talking about the Covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical ruptures, or the rapid rise of insurgent political forces. But Natasha Lennard argues that…
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Interregnum - Living in the Pyrocene
September 3, 2026 · 41 minRichard returns to talk about this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years, and the threat of the so-called weather whiplash effect, with heatwaves and wildfires being…
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[UNLOCKED] James Meadway on the economic costs of heatwaves
August 27, 2026 · 32 minJames Meadway joins PTO to discuss the report he recently authored for the Verdant think tank on the economic costs of the recent UK heatwaves. We talked about how the extreme weather hit productivity right across the economy - from…
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Purple state revolution? w/ Maurice Weeks
August 20, 2026 · 27 minIn the Wisconsin primary last week the socialist candidate Francesca Hong was narrowly defeated by her more centrist opponent. It's a result that some argue shows the limits of left politics in swing states and outside of Democrat voting…

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