The Centre Can’t Save Democracy
The political centre sells itself as the answer to our democratic crisis, but it was their technocratic reforms that hollowed out politics – and facilitated the rise of the far-right.
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Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune and the host of our weekly podcast A World to Win.
32. Biden’s America: An Interview with Doug Henwood
This week, Grace speaks to Doug Henwood, author of Wall Street: How it Works and For Whom, about Biden’s stimulus package and what’s been going on in US stock markets – plus how workers can organise post-Covid.
Capitalism’s Covid Recovery Will Deepen Social Inequality
Across the West, governments are plotting pandemic recoveries which will enrich asset-owners and squeeze workers – it’s time to build coalitions that can fight back against the next phase of capitalist inequality.
31. Race, Empire, and Capitalism: An Interview with Adom Getachew
In this week’s episode, Grace speaks to Adom Getachaw, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, about racial capitalism and how the aftershocks of imperialism continue to affect our world.
Keir Starmer’s First Year Has Been a Disaster for Progressives
One year ago, Keir Starmer was elected leader on a promise to make Labour a ‘real opposition’ again – instead, he has consistently failed to push back against the most right-wing government in living memory.
30. A Marine History of Capitalism: An Interview with Laleh Khalili
In this week’s episode, recorded before the Ever Given incident, Grace speaks to academic and writer Laleh Khalili about the role of global shipping role in networks of state power, corporate sovereignty, and imperialism.
29. The Return of the Nasty Party: An Interview with Shami Chakrabarti
This week, Grace talks to Shami Chakrabarti – barrister, human rights campaigner, and former Shadow Attorney General under Jeremy Corbyn – about the Police Crackdown Bill and the wider Tory assault on civil liberties.
Liberals Want Civil Rights – But Not the Protests Needed to Win Them
The response to yesterday’s protests in Bristol is a reminder that the liberal commentariat would have bitterly condemned the very movements that struggled to win the rights they now claim to defend.
28. Public Health Colonialism: An Interview with Dr Eugene Richardson
As the anniversary of the WHO’s declaration of a pandemic approaches, Grace speaks to Eugene Richardson, Harvard’s Assistant Professor of Global Health, about how capitalism produces huge health inequalities – and what we can do about it.
Capitalism Has Always Been Authoritarian
Capitalism is often presented as synonymous with freedom, but when the ruling class meets resistance it responds with violence – and exposes the coercion that sustains a deeply unequal system.
27. Love Kills Capitalism: An Interview with Kristen Ghodsee
In a special International Women’s Day episode of A World to Win, Grace speaks to academic and author and Kristen Ghodsee about the failures of liberal feminism, and about how socialism can help us build happier, healthier relationships.
It’s Time to Reclaim International Working Women’s Day
International Women’s Day has radical roots, but its contemporary incarnation has been co-opted by corporate elites – it’s time to put the women workers who keep our society running back at its heart.
Yes, We Can Raise Corporation Tax in a Pandemic
The Labour leadership’s attempt to brand a corporation tax rise as ‘austerity’ is politically inane, economically backwards and a gift to the Tories. But they won’t mind – the only real aim is to signal that Corbynism is over.
26. Work Won’t Love You Back: An Interview with Sarah Jaffe
In this week’s episode, Grace talks to journalist and author Sarah Jaffe about Joe Biden’s first weeks, Covid and climate crisis in the US, and how the pandemic is changing the world of work.
Starmer’s Speech Failed, Even On Its Own Terms
Keir Starmer’s speech today was an opportunity to present a bold alternative to growing inequality under the Tories – it failed spectacularly.
25. Rigged: A Discussion of Ugandan Politics with Moses Khisa
On this week’s A World to Win, Grace is joined by academic Moses Khisa to discuss the recent elections in Uganda, the country’s slide towards authoritarianism and its failed efforts at neoliberal reforms.
Bill Gates Can’t Save the World
Bill Gates is splashed on magazine covers across the world this week with his plan to solve climate change. But his new book ignores the fact that the same system which made him rich is the one killing the planet.
24. The War on Disabled People: An Interview with Ellen Clifford
In this week’s episode, Grace is joined by activist and author Ellen Clifford to discuss the impact of successive governments’ human rights violations, a decade of austerity, and the pandemic on the lives of disabled people in Britain.
The Government Abandoned Disabled People Long Before Covid
A huge proportion of the UK’s Covid deaths have been disabled people — but devastating cuts to health services and local government funds put the community at risk years before the virus hit.
23. When Activism Is Called Terrorism: An Interview with Ben Smoke
This week, Grace speaks to Stansted 15 activist Ben Smoke about the hostile environment, the power of direct action, and the steady degradation of human rights in Britain.