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Excerpt - France's protest movement w/ Sebastian Budgen

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2026-10-24

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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 developi...

2026-10-22

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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 ...

2026-10-15

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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 ...

2026-10-08

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

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2026-10-05

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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 today's episode - was so severe that it resembles Israel's g...

2026-10-01

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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 diplomatic settlement. We chatted about the position of the Gu...

2026-09-24

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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 political differences and class struggle were set aside in the ...

2026-09-17

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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, geopolitical ruptures, or the rapid rise of insurgent political f...

2026-09-10

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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, and the threat of the so-called weather whiplash effect, w...

2026-09-03

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[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 heatwaves. We talked about how the extreme weather hit productivity...

2026-08-27

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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 that some argue shows the limits of left politics in swing ...

2026-08-20

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

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2026-08-18

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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 more rare for Palestine to be situated in the broader contex...

2026-08-13

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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 about the current situation and the prospects of a deal betw...

2026-08-06

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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 episode of PTO Extra! please consider becoming a £5 suppor...

2026-07-20

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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 great power conflict, the world of the 2020s is one of concate...

2026-07-18

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Excerpt - Daniel Trilling responds to listener questions

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2026-07-02

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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 about what the ramifications of the results are - both state...

2026-06-27

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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 US naval blockade of Iran. We talked about how seriously to ...

2026-06-17

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