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- 5 days ago41 min
The Board of Peace - a model for a new world order? w/ Noura Erakat
In a recent long read for the Boston Review, Noura Erakat argued that the Board of Peace represents a new model of governance that aims to circumvent international law, democratic accountability and self-determination. Comparing the project to charter cities and other libertarian projects Noura argues that the board offers a blueprint for a new world order in which corporate power trumps international law and collective political rights. In our conversation we talked about the origins of the board, why it's a mistake not to take its creation seriously, and how the structure of the board - and the personnel involved - overlap with other projects that involve exit from established norms and legal structures around the world. Notes: Exit and Exception: The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/exit-and-exception/
- 1 weeks ago44 min
Lula's comeback w/ Benjamin Fogel
The first round of the Brazilian presidential election had been expected to result in a relatively comfortable victory for Lula. Instead the results on October 4th had Lula on just forty-five percent of the vote - two percentage points behind Flávio Bolsanaro. Since the restoration of Brazilian democracy no candidate who failed to win the first round had ever prevailed in the second - and far-right candidates had won victories in legislative races across the country. But on Sunday Lula and his campaign beat the odds and achieved a remarkable turnaround - winning nearly 52 percent of the vote, with more than 64 million Brazilians coming out to vote for Lula and the Brazilian Worker's Party. To explain the extraordinary election result PTO was joined by Ben Fogel. Notes: Lessons From Lula’s Historic Victory - Benjamin Fogel: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/lula-brazil-election-2026-flavio-bolsonaro-victory/ Lula’s Leap Into the Future - Andre Pagliarini: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/lulas-leap-into-the-future Lula’s Final Chapter: https://www.equator.org/articles/brazil-lula-elections-results
- 2 weeks ago1 min
Excerpt - France's protest movement w/ Sebastian Budgen
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- 2 weeks ago36 min
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 were more frequently described as belonging to the developing world or - in the case of those states deemed favourable destinations for international capital - emerging markets. Those terms have since increasingly fallen out of favour and been replaced by 'Global South' - a term whose roots go back to the 1960s. To talk about why that occurred - and its historical significance in the context of the decline of US hegemony, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the US war on Iran - Ravinder Kaur returns to PTO to talk about the concept of the Global South and her recent essay on the topic. Notes: Global South Redux: The Making of a Geopolitical Concept https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/32/2/article-p207_4.xml PTO interview: Capitalist dreams and nationalist designs w/ Ravinder Kaur https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/108-capitalist-dreams-and-nationalist-designs-w-ravinder-kaur
- 3 weeks ago56 min
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 to meet the threat posed by Russia, Khem Rogaly joins PTO to talk about the UK defence budget. We talked about how the military spending of the United States, the UK and their Nato allies compares with the spending of their adversaries, and why Britain and France are outliers in their force projection capabilities in Europe. We also talked about why the UK ministry of defence has such a poor track record with defence procurement, and we discussed Britain's hugely expensive Trident nuclear weapons system. Finally, Khem outlined some first steps for what a reforming government could do to shift UK policy towards creating a military that was genuinely focussed on defence. Notes: Posturing to the World: The Costs of Britain’s Global Military and Expansive Strategy: https://transitionsecurity.org/posturing-to-the-world/
- Oct 8, 202646 min
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'. We talked about how China's remarkable economic rise was facilitated by the state's socialist inheritance and about the central role played by Chinese migrant workers. We went on to discuss the creation of a conventional capitalist labour market in China, as the so-called iron rice bowl of the State Owned Enterprises and the cradle-to-grave welfare system for urban workers was broken up. We went on to talk about the so-called New Enclosure Movement in the Chinese countryside that is finally expropriating the rural population of their control over land. Finally, we touched on the truly global implications of the unmaking and remaking of the Chinese working class.
- Oct 5, 20262 min
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the AI threat, the Sudan genocide, and the UK and Palestine
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- Oct 1, 202653 min
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 today's episode - was so severe that it resembles Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza. A key role in the Yemen conflict was played by British-built planes that were used to indiscriminately bomb the country, and contributed to what was described by the United Nations at the time as the world's worst humanitarian disaster. In a new report for the Campaign Against the Arms Trade and the Transition Security Project, David and his co-authors argue the case for the British government and UK arms companies to pay reparations to the people of Yemen. In the episode we talked about the report and Britain's role in the Yemen conflict, including in the current phase as hostilities between Ansar Allah and Saudi Arabia escalate once more. And finally, we touched on the UAE and the Manchester City scandal and what it tells us about the phenomenon of the gulf monarchies' involvement in sportswashing. Notes: Britain’s Role in Yemen’s Brutal War Must End – And Reparations Should Follow: https://zeteo.uk/p/britains-role-in-yemens-brutal-war Reparations for Yemen: A proposal for a windfall tax on British arms companies that enabled Saudi war crimes https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2026/09/CAATTSP-Yemen-Reperations-WEB.pdf
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