PoliticsJOE Podcast

Helena is a Green Party member and the streamer NoJusticeMTG. As someone who was in the room during the Green Party's Zionism is Racism motion that passed at their annual conference, she came by the PolJOE dungeon to break down the motion for us, and delve deeper into what it means for Green voters and the wider British left.

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor are fighting for the living world. Their new book charts an alliance between Silicon Valley billionaires, Donald Trump, and the far right, who they suggest are working against humanity in the name of profit and power.

Zack Polanski did not win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. But is there a world where he could have?Ava and Seán breakdown the result, what it means for the Greens, and why it went Labour's way.

Could Zack Polanski's leadership represent something much bigger than a change of direction for the Green Party? Ava was joined live by Green Party leader Zack Polanski and author Russell Warfield on the launch of Russell's book "The Green Socialist: Zack Polanski and the Battle for Britain’s Future" to discuss the rise of the Greens, the crisis facing British politics and the political ideas behind Polanski's rapid rise. Is the Green Party's rise a temporary reaction to Labour, or part of a much bigger transformation of British politics?

Jeremy Corbyn has been no stranger to international solidarity in his long career as a politician. He sat down with Ava to discuss his campaigning for the blockade to be lifted on Cuba, after a summer of campaigning which led him to travel to the Caribbean island to show his support for its people. Corbyn also breaks down his assessment of Andy Burnham's time as Labour leader to this point, and how the former Manchester mayor can solidify Labour's recent spike in the polls.

Ava and Seán take to the studio to chat through Ava's appearance on the beeb last week, on the topic of immigration.Having had a couple of chances to speak on a crammed show, she and Seán get into the meat of the arguments started on the telly.

Daron Acemoglu is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of What Happened to Liberal Democracy. He joined Ava to explain why liberal democracy is facing one of its biggest crises in generations — and what needs to change to save it. Acemoglu argues that the problems facing democracies go much deeper than individual politicians. Across the UK, US and Europe, trust in political institutions has eroded as economic growth has become less widely shared, communities have weakened and the relationship between political elites and working-class voters has fractured. Buy Daron's book here: https://profilebooks.com/work/what-happened-to-liberal-democracy/

Owen Jones makes his PolJOE debut to talk all things Western decline, chatting to Ava about where everything went wrong.His new book, The Fall of the West, recaptures the narrative of our present economic, military, and moral crises. From Western support for Israel to Trump's creeping authoritarianism, to the legacy of Iraq and deindustrialisation, Owen exposes the hypocrisy and danger of concentrated wealth.Find Owen's book:https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587/the-fall-of-the-west-by-jones-owen/9780241740644

Ava is once again joined by friend of the podcast Scott Lucas to break down the latest in the world of Donald Trump. He had a busy couple of days in New York where he met Andy Burnham face-to-face, but another of the big stories at the UN was the long-awaited "deal" on Greenland. Scott breaks down what actually happened in the US/Denmark/Greenland trilat.