New podcast episode featuring a discussion between Anton Jäger and Vincent Bevins on their new books analyzing the 2010s.
Available on Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and more.
https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast
What makes a class traitor or social climber?
Engaging with a wide variety of thinkers and writers, from Richard Wright and Annie Ernaux, to Spinoza and Bourdieu, Transclasses puts forth a theory of social non-reproduction - the distinction within distinction.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/791-transclasses
Join us for the relaunch of the Verso Podcast, a new series where leading Verso thinkers, activists and authors discuss the big ideas of our time.
Full episode: https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast
“As soon as you start talking about handing over power, that’s when the phone calls dry up”
On a new episode of the Verso Podcast, Maori activist and human rights advocate Tina Ngata discusses the tokenistic support indigenous people receive when fighting for climate justice.
Full episode: https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast
On the first episode of The Verso Podcast Eleanor Penny is joined by Raj Patel and Tina Ngata for a fascinating discussion on the historical roots of exploitation, the impact on our planet, and the fight for justice.
https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast
Who do the police protect? | Ben Smoke speaks to Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone
Since the 1980s police have suppressed protests using aggressive tactics—from batons to horse charges to kettling. New military-style tactics were sanctioned by the Thatcher government, in secret. Over the next forty years those protesting against racism, unfair job losses, draconian laws, or for environmental protection were subject to brutal tactics. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent, how do the police manage crowds, provoke violence and even break the law?
Ben Smoke talks to Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone about their new book Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest. Out now: https://bit.ly/3LxPHy1
Why are the UK police allowed to suppress protests using aggressive tactics—from batons to horse charges to kettling?
Ben Smoke speaks to Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone
🎧 Listen to the full episode on Spotify, SoundCloud, or wherever you get your podcasts
When will the Churchill cult end?
When will the Churchill cult end?
Tariq Ali explains why we need to dismantle the ideology around Churchill.
The Churchill cult is out of control: Tariq Ali
Churchill was a divisive, reactionary politician - unpopular even within his own party, and an open enemy of the working class. The life he lead was that of a racist imperialist, and he was sympathetic to fascism - a supporter of Mussolini and Franco. How has this wartime leader become a household god for many?
In this video (and his new book) Tariq Ali looks at the development of the Churchill cult: where it came from, why his legacy is being used in this way, and how long it will last.
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali is out now: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3971-winston-churchill?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=winston_churchill&utm_content=author_video
What is ecofeminism, and why is it necessary in the fight for climate justice?
This episode was hosted by Julie Gorecki, co-author of the introduction to the first English translation of Feminism or Death: How the Women’s Movement Can Save the Planet by Françoise d’Eaubonne. Julie spoke with Inês Telles, Joana Bregolat, Andreia Galvao, Alice Vale de Gato and Sara Bourehiyi about why we need an ecofeminist approach in our organizing and resistance to extractive capitalism.
🔈 Full episode here: https://bit.ly/3JEo4CY
Owning the Transition
The case for public ownership of wind & other renewable energy resources.
In our third episode of Climate Crisis: Time for a New Society, David Hughes, Mika Minio and Thea Riofrancos focus on the question of wind and how this endless resource can be appropriated to generate a socially profitable energy transformation.
🎧 Watch the full episode here: https://bit.ly/3rsd71c
Climate Crisis: Time for a New Society is a new podcast where writers and activists discuss radical ideas to move beyond the doom of climate breakdown. A collaboration with Rosalux-Europa
