The Malcolm Effect

#121 Anti imperialism and The Question of Syria - Max Ajl

What does an anti-imperialist position on the question of Syria sound like?

 

Max Ajl is a fellow at MECAM/University of Tunis, a Senior Fellow at University of Ghent and an associated researcher at the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment. He is an associate editor at Agrarian South and Journal of Labor and Society, and has written for The Journal of Peasant Studies and the Review of African Political Economy. His book, A People’s Green New Deal, was published in 2021 with Pluto Press.

 

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#120 Our role within the imperial core - Dr. Nina Farnia

What does our present moment require from us? Listen in as Dr. Nina Farnia and I discuss the responsibility of those who live in the imperial core, particularly the US.

 

Nina Farnia is a law professor and legal historian whose research focuses on US imperialism and anti-imperialist dissidents. Her forthcoming book is entitled Imperialism: An American Story (Stanford University Press).

 

Twitter:

@MomodouTaal

@NinaFarnia

 

#119 The Problem with Western Marxism - Professor Gabriel Rockhill

Why is it the case that so many leftists in the West fail on the question of imperialism? Listen in as Professor Rockhill takes us through the problems with Western Marxism

Dr. Gabriel Rockhill is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique, Professor of Philosophy and Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University, and the author or editor of ten books, as well as numerous scholarly and general public articles. He is also the Associate Director of Cultural Studies at Villanova University, Research Associate at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique – LAP (EHESS, Paris), one of the editors-in-chief of the World Marxist Review, and co-editor of the book series AIM–Anti-Imperialist Marxism.

He has made numerous media appearance related to his scholarship and interventions in public debates. Click here to contact Dr. Rockhill for speaking engagements or interviews.

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#118 Marx's Methodology - Colin Bodayle

Listen in to this super informative episode on Marx's methodology and place within the western philosophical canon

 

Colin Bodayle teaches philosophy at Villanova University. His main research areas are Marxism, Classical German Philosophy, and anti-colonial philosophy. You can find him on social media on Twitter

@colinbodayle

or on Substack.

 

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@ctayj

#117 An Introduction to Khalil Gibran - Nicolas-Bilal Urick

In this episode we take a look at the life and work of Khalil Gibran

#116 The Neoliberal Subject - Arun Kundnani

Listen in as we discuss how we build socialism whilst our subjectivities have been constituted under neoliberalism.

 

Arun Kundnani is a writer interested in race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism.

Born in London, he moved to New York in 2010 and now lives in Philadelphia. The Guardian has described him as “one of Britain’s best political writers.”

Kundnani is the author of What is Antiracism? (Verso, 2023), The Muslims are Coming! (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance (Pluto, 2007), which was selected as a New Statesman book of the year. He has written for the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Vice, and The Intercept.  A former editor of the journal Race & Class, he was educated at Cambridge University, and holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University. He has been an Open Society fellow and a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

 

I.G. @TheGambian

 

Twitter:

@MomodouTaal

@FanonIsCanon

@CTayJ

#115 French Elections, The Left and Palestinian Organising - Dr. Myriam François

Listen in as Dr Myriam Francois and I discuss the recent elections in France.

 

Myriam François is a British journalist, filmmaker and writer. Her work has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera. She is the founder and CEO of production company mpwr Productions, which specialises in documentary films centred on minority voices.

 

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@Myzfrancois

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@MyriamFrancoisC

Political Education for Liberation - BLMUK's Project Timbuktu

Listen in as we discuss BLMUK's political education program: Project Timbuktu

 

The full programme for the festival of collective liberation: https://ukblm.org/festival-2024

#114 Iran, women's rights and external disruptions to sovereignty - Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi

What does a principled stance toward Iran sound like? With increasing US imperialist aggression toward Iran, folks often focus on the internal contradictions within Islam rather than focusing on the role of US imperialism. Listen in as Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi and I discuss Iran's history and struggle for sovereignty.

 

Helyeh Doutaghi is the Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy Project and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Her research explores the intersections of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), encompassing Marxian and postcolonial critiques of law, sanctions, and international political economy. Helyeh's doctoral dissertation draws on the mechanisms, harms, and beneficiaries of the sanctions regime imposed on Iran, centering questions of value transfer and wealth drain. Additionally, she is interested in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), having written about its history, practice, and the production of knowledge (and ignorance), particularly in the context of the U.S. military. 

 

Twitter:

@Helyeh_Doutaghi

@MomodouTaal

What is BLMUK's Festival of Collective Liberation?

BLMUK’s Festival of Collective Liberation will be centring Black women elders and developing solidarity with anti-colonial/anti-imperialist struggles across the world. 

The one-day festival will be comprised of panel discussions, strategy debates, keynote speeches, workshops, trainings and art and music. As well as international solidarity, it will explore Black resistance in the labour movement, police and prison abolition, migration and climate justice, bodily autonomy, cultural and artistic resistance and Black radical education. It will also launch Project Timbuktu, BLM's inaugural political education course.

Register for tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/blacklivesmatteruk/1267185

Email hello@ukblm.org for any questions