Debate on BBC Talkback where I argue that despite the US and Israel violating almost every international law and norm, Iran currently holds the strategic upper hand:
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Debate on BBC Talkback where I argue that despite the US and Israel violating almost every international law and norm, Iran currently holds the strategic upper hand:
Heated debate on the spectacular Green Party win in Gorton & Denton. Pushed back firmly on most of the caricatures and false claims about the Greens and the campaign
Vote LDF in Kerala
BREAKING: Palestine Action Ban Ruled Unlawful
Sakhave! To keep Kerala’s people’s government in power, vote LDF. Lal Salam ✊🏾
It is the pause after the question that kills me.
Calling a fight over Greenland a “world war” is idiotic. It would be a squabble over ice between dead empires and a rotting one. No brown or black bodies to use as cannon fodder this time. The only real outcome is the collapse of the Atlantic pact that’s defined the last 80 years.
US withdraws all military forces from Iraq’s federal territory after 23 years.
Went on LBC
Topics covered: Tens of thousands without drinking water for nearly a week. Bills exploding. Public health emergencies. Renationalising water polls at 90%. The Greens are right. Starmer remains loyal to a failed privatised model and the companies that profit from it
Renationalise water!
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Bottom line: I’m not asking anyone to canonise Maduro or deny degeneration. I’m pushing back against a left habit of treating countries under economic warfare as failed thought experiments. Sanctions are economic warfare. Dismissing welfare under siege launders regime change.
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Several concrete claims were ignored: recognition of social reproduction, women-targeted cash transfers, Indigenous and collective land deeds, communal legal structures, and material South–South solidarity under blockade.
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Scale matters. Under sanctions, a state branded uniquely corrupt built 4 million public homes. Britain, vastly richer and unconstrained, built almost none. If corruption explains everything there, then here the explanation is class power.
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That reality can coexist with programmes that prevent starvation and decommodify housing at scale. A materialist analysis has to hold both facts at once.
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Yes, corruption exists. But “corrupt” is not an argument that a policy had no material effect. Under blockade and import dependence, rents concentrate and opportunists thrive.
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The issue is whether, under sanctions, oil collapse, and hyperinflation, Venezuela chose redistribution and social provisioning over IMF discipline, mass privatisation, and austerity.
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The “if pandemic income support is socialism then Boris Johnson is a socialist” line is clever but evasive. The issue isn’t whether income support exists in the abstract.
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I was responding to an academic demand to name a single progressive left policy of the Maduro government. That is an empirical question, not a definitional one.
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But his response shifts away from what my intervention was doing. I wasn’t offering a purity test for “real socialism,” or holding up Maduro’s Venezuela as a model.
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Worth engaging with the full Politics Theory Other episode. Richard Seymour offers a familiar critique of corruption, repression, and the exhaustion of Chavismo. These are real issues the left should not ignore.
It's imperialism, stupid!
Natural resources are not the reason the US wants control over Greenland. I explain why in my new @theconversation.com article on Greenland's critical raw materials and fossil fuels in US expansionist ambition.
Read the article here:
theconversation.com/why-greenlan...
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Spoke to The Independent on Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on any country trading with Iran. It is economic warfare. This kind of erratic trade coercion raises the risk of doing business with the US, accelerates its isolation, and fuels global de-dollarisation www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
One year of Trump’s tariffs. Higher prices, global disruption, and political theatre. I unpack what happened to the US and world economy on Al Jazeera:
Why Venezuela? Oil isn’t the whole story.
Talking to L’Humanité about what’s actually at stake.
Primitive accumulation, plunder, slavery, colonial extraction and exploitation are all part of the same capitalist mechanisms that built Britain.
The state-backed companies that led this are the same that continue to steal workers’ share of the products of their labour today.
She’s the worst
"Genuine question..."
Just went on the BBC. The other guest was former adviser to disgraced opposition figure Juan Guaidó, brought on to launder Washington’s fallacious justifications for outright thuggery in Venezuela.
What if the urgency surrounding Trump’s attack on Venezuela is not just about oil, but about the end of US oil? What if this is a desperate attempt to hold onto US oil dominance after loosing the fight to dominate green capitalism?
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