A World to Win with Grace Blakeley

This week, Grace speaks to Aeron Davis, professor of political communication at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and author of the new book Bankruptcy, Bubbles, and Bailouts: An Inside History of the Treasury Since 1976. They discuss the treasury and its role in promoting the financialisation of the UK economy, how it has contributed to various crises over the last 40 years, and its wider relationships with other state institutions. They also discuss the involvement of the treasury in recent governments, and how that might change under the new PM, Rishi Sunak.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week Grace speaks to historian David Broder about Italian fascism. They analyse about the recent elections in which the Italian far-right party led by Giorgia Meloni, the Brothers of Italy, came to power. And they discuss the longer-term background of the rise of fascism, which David will be covering in his forthcoming book, Mussolini's Grandchildren.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist, scholar, and professor of geography at the City University of New York. She is the author of several books, including Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California and, most recently, Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. They discuss who is profiting from the criminal justice system, how existing institutions within the system serve to support and reinforce capitalist social relations, and what a socialist conception of justice looks like.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace is joined by Mareile Pfannebecker (https://twitter.com/mareilep) and James A. Smith (https://twitter.com/thepopularpod) to discuss their book Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism. They discuss why we are working so hard, what kind of work is valued, and what a post-work future might look like.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace is joined by James Schneider, former Head of Strategic Communications for Jeremy Corbyn and the co-founder of Momentum, to talk about his book Our Bloc: How We Win. They discuss the challenges facing the left in the UK and around the world—and how we can bring together disparate parts of our movement into a coherent bloc to build power.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace speaks to Phil Burton-Cartledge, author of Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain, about the current leadership contest within the Conservative Party. They discuss why there's a dearth of Tory talent, why both candidates, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, are trying to model themselves on Margaret Thatcher, and whether they have any answers to long-term issues facing both the country and the Conservative Party itself.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace speaks to Vicky Spratt, author of the book Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency. They discuss the multiple problems that tenants in the UK face in accessing and maintaining secure housing and the strategies renters are using to resist the exploitative and extractive practices of landlords.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This Week, Grace talks to Ali Milani, author of The Unlikely Candidate: What Losing an Election Taught Me About How to Change Politics. They discuss what it was like running an election in Boris Johnson's seat in 2019, some issues facing the Labour Party, and advice for young activists.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace talks to David Adler, General Coordinator of the Progressive International, about the ongoing Colombian presidential election and what the results of its first round say about the role of social media platforms like TikTok in the global political discourse.Thanks to producer Sarah Hurd for filling in this week and to the Socialism Conference for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace talks to Kojo Koram, lecturer in law at Birkbeck and author of several books, including The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line. We discuss Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's plan to conduct a review on the legalisation of cannabis, the roots of drugs criminalisation, the neoliberal roots of the war on drugs, and why decriminalisation will save lives.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace talks to brilliant young climate campaigner Mikaela Loach about her work trying to shut down oil production in the North Sea, taking the government to court over fossil fuel subsidies, and the best ways to organise among Gen Z! Mikaela has been involved with campaigns such as Stop Cambo (https://www.stopcambo.org.uk/), Stop Jackdaw (https://www.stopcambo.org.uk/updates/breaking-shell-is-asking-the-uk-government-to-approve-the-jackdaw-gas-field-were-here-to-stop-it), and Paid to Pollute (https://paidtopollute.org.uk/).You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/Aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace talks to Sam Moore, co-author with Alex Roberts of The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right. Sam and Alex host their own podcast, 12 Rules for WHAT, which focuses on the rise of the far right. They discuss how far-right politicians are weaponising the climate crisis to build support for an extremist, exclusionary politics based on "batteries, bombs, and borders," how this links to a longer history of right-wing environmentalism, and how the left should respond.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace talks to Sumi Rabindrakumar of the Trussell Trust (https://www.trusselltrust.org/), a charity that is on the front lines of the cost of living crisis, providing emergency food support to those who need it, as well as campaigning to change government policy with a view to tackling poverty up and down the UK. They discuss the roots of the current crisis, who is being most affected, and what could be done to tackle it.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.