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The latest episode of the podcast Politics Theory Other, with guest Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline.

In conversation with Jérôme Skalski, the Marxist philosopher explores the connections between History, Communism and Socialism.

We are now coming upon the 10th anniversary of the wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012. These uprisings were most vividly transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves and circulated anonymously on the internet. In The People Are Not an Image, Snowdon explores this radical shift in revolutionary self-representation, showing that the political consequences of these videos cannot be located without reference to their aesthetic form.

Matt Sandler considers the poet Louise Glück’s controversial Nobel Prize lecture, asking "Is minstrelsy really the first step on the way to white self-knowledge?"

Peter E. Gordon questions what really caused the anti-democratic assault on the Capitol and whether we should call the President a fascist.

Jillian C. York, author of the forthcoming Silicon Values: the Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism, argues, in the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol, that users, not tech executives, should decide what constitutes free speech online.

Trump's engagement with the Radical Right began long before his incitement of the violence at the Capitol.

Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing.

As the COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out across the richest countries, Arianne Shahvisi warns against the rise of 'vaccine nationalism' that polices who does and does not get the jabs. And why this is likely to consolidate existing global inequalities.

On the publication of his new book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm reaffirms the call for climate action

Jonathan Cook celebrates yesterday's ruling that refused the demand to extradite Julian Assange to the US, but also warns that it has dangerous consequences for press freedoms in the future.

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