46: 1989: 30 years of hope for a better Europe, part 2
The second half of our podcast on Europe after 1989, with Andras Bozoki, Mary Kaldor, Alena Ivanova, and Quinsy Gario joining Luke Cooper and Zoe Williams.
View Article47: Are we heading for a united Ireland?
Brexit has been a rough ride for the people of Northern Ireland. Having never voted to Leave the EU it felt like a colonial act of English nationalism. But it also has created a new spirit of hope that...
View Article48: The Big Brexit Review: What did we get right and what did we get wrong?
It's been emotional. Nearly four years on from the referendum result and with Britain having decisively left the EU, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper are joined by Nick Dearden, from Global Justice...
View Article49: What would a feminist Europe look like?
The rise of the far right across Europe has given new life to the anti-feminist agenda. How do we stop the roll back and go on the offensive for a new agenda for a feminist Europe? On this podcast,...
View Article50: Fake News and the Coronavirus: how should we respond? – Saving Europe...
In the last of our Saving Europe From Itself series, Luke Cooper is joined by Carl Miller, research director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos and author of The Death of...
View Article51: Coronavirus Lockdown with James Meadway - are we heading for a great...
Covid-19 is the most serious crisis human civilisation has faced since the Second World War. It’s a global emergency that will change every aspect of our society. Life will go on but not as we know...
View Article52: Coronavirus Lockdown - Can Britain’s NHS win the battle against Covid-19?
Hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper are joined by NHS doctor Sonia Adesara and Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, to discuss the enormous challenges facing Britain's underfunded healthcare...
View Article53: Coronavirus Lockdown - Hardship and hope in the Italian epicentre
Italy was the first European country to be hit by the terrible coronavirus pandemic. This week hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper are joined by Andrea Pisauro, Italian leftist and neuroscientist based...
View Article54: Coronavirus Lockdown - Capitalism on life support: so what do we do next?
It's quite simply the biggest peacetime crisis capitalism has ever faced. The entire global system has ground to a halt. In this moment of great danger and turmoil, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper...
View Article55: Coronavirus Lockdown - Is Modi's India lurching towards fascism?
Increasingly it looks like there's a way of doing politics that suits the terrible ravages of capitalism in the twenty-first century. It's authoritarianism spliced with racism. And it rejects the...
View Article56: Love thy country: can patriotism be reclaimed by the left?
It seems some things don't change after all. A now familiar row has broken out in the Labour Party over the idea of patriotism and nationality. This has been a continuous theme of the party's travails...
View Article57: Democratising our economy: municipal finance for a green new deal
There aren't too many good news stories about. But here's a great one. A new model for financing sustainable development projects in a democratic and participatory way. Hosts Luke Cooper and Zoe...
View Article58: The plutocracy of the twenty-first century - what is rentier capitalism?
We are at a pivot moment in history. The choices we make today could determine the fate of future generations. Coronavirus has been correctly recognised as a giant wake up call to the realities of a...
View Article59: Remember Brexit? Well, it's not going well
As Boris Johnson is set for a video conference negotiation with the EU next week, we look at the sorry state of his Brexit negotiations. Hosts Luke Cooper and Zoe Williams are joined by Laura Bannister...
View Article60: Black Lives Matter - special edition
The killing of George Floyd unleashed a huge global uprising. Black Lives Matter has become a global movement against racism and for social and political justice. In Britain and across Europe...
View Article61: Are the Conservatives changing for good?
Paul Mason and Christabel Cooper ... The Coronavirus crisis has turned on its head many assumptions about how politics works. It used to be taken for granted that the Tories want to make the state...
View Article62: 'I made millions from the financial crisis. Trust me, the system is broken'
He made a fortune in the last financial crisis betting against a recovery. Now one-time City trader Gary Stevenson tells his jaw-dropping story. He won his job in a card game at one of the world's top...
View Article63: Book launch: Trade Secrets - the truth about the US trade deal and how we...
In this podcast Another Europe's Zoe Williams talks to Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, about his new book, Trade Secrets. They unravel the corporate agenda at the heart of modern trade...
View Article64: Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics
It is no exaggeration to say that dark money is now a major factor in our politics - and the lack of transparency threatens the democratic process. The 2016 Brexit referendum was the pilot episode of a...
View Article65: One minute to midnight to save American democracy
As American democracy faces the most troubling moment in its modern history, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper talk to one of the world's leading experts on the far right about where it all went...
View Article66: This is Not Normal: the Collapse of Liberal Britain
This definitely isn't normal is it? The world feels increasingly like a strange absurdist theatre we have all found our collective selves in. A new book tells the story of the last four years and how...
View Article67: Is an ethical foreign policy possible in an authoritarian world?
We talk about authoritarianism a lot on this podcast and how it's resisted from below by grassroots movements. But we haven't yet broached what the principles are in how democratic states should...
View Article68: Is the game finally up for Donald Trump?
After what seemed like a lifetime, the final results are in: America has said "no more" to Donald Trump. Collectively the world breathed a sigh of relief as the results came in. But many questions...
View Article69: The UK at the cliff edge. Are we heading for a no deal catastrophe?
Will he do it? If Boris Johnson leads the UK to a no deal crash out from the transition period he'll surely be remembered as the most irresponsible prime minister in British history. His flag waving...
View Article70: 2021 – year of climate resistance?
The Coronavirus pandemic can be seen as a huge ecological warning: a sign that our footprint on planet Earth is becoming terribly unsustainable. And while that crisis continues to - rightly - dominate...
View Article71: One good thing could come out of Brexit: a bonfire of national illusions
As the four nations of the United Kingdom struggle to reconcile themselves to life outside the EU are we witnessing the gradual unravelling of the illusions and delusions that have dominated the...
View Article72: Migrant rights under Covid: the quiet battle for human dignity
Britain's migrant workers are living through a huge moment of change. The country's immigration system has now fundamentally changed after the exit from the European Union and vast numbers of migrants...
View Article73: Fighting for life after Covid: how do our economies need to be redesigned?
By now it should be clear. Coronavirus is a ‘strategic’, not episodic, crisis for human development in this century. It poses sweeping social and economic change to our societies – as we try to come to...
View Article74: Do economies always have to grow? The question facing capitalism
In this podcast, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper talk to ecological economist, Tim Jackson, about his new book, Post-Growth; Life After Capitalism. Every society in the world shares a fundamental...
View Article75: European super WHAT? Money and power in modern football
The European Super League was dead almost on arrival. An uprising of fans, the football authorities and governments swiftly killed the project. It seemed to encapsulate everything that had gone wrong...
View Article76: Where is Germany going? The future of Europe's sleeping giant after the...
The fight is on to replace Germany's centrist chancellor, Angela Merkel, who is stepping down after dominating the country's political scene for a decade and a half. With new elections scheduled for...
View Article77: Hope despite retreat? Reflections on five years since the Brexit referendum
Does June 2016 seem like only yesterday? Or does it seem like an eternity? Fives years on from the referendum hosts Luke Cooper and Zoe Williams meet up with Laura Parker from the Another Europe...
View Article78: England, Englishness and anti-racism after the Euros
Can Englishness be anti-racist? After a remarkable football tournament, where the England football players made such a strong anti-racist statement we draw out some of the political implications for...
View Article79: 'I fled the Taliban, now I fear for my people'
The crisis in Afghanistan has dominated the airwaves this summer - and rightly so. In this episode, Luke Cooper talks to Shukria Rezaei, an Afghan living in London about her family's decade-long battle...
View Article80: Paul Mason on How to Stop Fascism
Fascism - the twentieth century's most barbaric ideology - is back and winning support on the streets and at the ballot boxes all over the world. What can we learn from the struggles against fascism in...
View Article81: Reflections on the German elections: Scholz's Spring and the centre-right...
It wasn't so long ago that Germany's declining social democratic party was seen as a a classic example of 'Pasokification' in Europe, a term referring to the steep decline of centre-left parties...
View Article82: COP26 and the global climate crisis: how do we save the planet?
As COP26 comes to a close, we investigate the global environmental and economic challenge facing humanity. In this podcast, Luke Cooper talks to economist Laurie Macfarlane, a columnist at Open...
View Article83: Spain’s left are leading Europe, so why are the far right on the rise?
Spain has one of the most successful vaccination programmes in the world. It's also set to launch the most ambitious national investment strategy in its post Franco history. But its trailblazing left...
View Article84: As the Boris Johnson regime faces its most serious crisis... how do we...
As his government lurches from scandal to scandal there is a new sense of hope that the Tories can be defeated. So what role can Another Europe play in building mass opposition and resistance? In this...
View Article85: Betwixt and between? Eastern Europeans in Britain
In the last twenty years Britons and Eastern Europeans have become closer and more intertwined than ever before. But it's often been a relationship of frustration, and, through the rise of...
View Article86: World politics after Putin's war
As the Russian invasion moves into its second month, in this special edition of the Another Europe podcast we were joined by a panel of experts to analyse this new age of catastrophe in a live podcast...
View Article87: Brexit is racist
Asking whether "Brexit is racist" might be seen as the "is the pope a Catholic" question of our era. But calling out the racism of Brexit is often seen as unacceptable in contemporary British politics....
View Article88: The cost of living crisis
Another year, another crisis. As inflation skyrockets, we talk to leading economic thinker and former City trader Gary Stevenson about the almighty hit, indeed the catastrophe, facing the incomes of...
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View Article91: Neoliberalism and the war against Ukraine
Ukrainians have shown extraordinary heroism and resilience in pushing back the imperialism Russian invasion. But are Ukraine's successes on the battlefield at risk of being undermined by the...
View Article92: From 'Global Britain' to Broken Brexit
It managed to unite Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in opposition. So why has the UK signed up to the CPTPP (the 'Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific...
View Article93: Decolonising Crimea
In the first podcast in our Ukraine and the World series, Luke Cooper talks to Masha Shynkarenko, a Research Associate with the Ukraine in European Dialogue programme at the Institute for Human...
View Article94: Robert Oppenheimer, anti-fascism and the nuclear bomb
It was a scientific discovery that changed the world forever. The nuclear bomb was largely a brainchild of left wing scientists who were determined Nazi Germany would not win the race to build this...
View Article95: The Polish Spring
Poland has dumped its far right government in a historic election victory for pro-democratic forces. After years of authoritarianism and anti-migrant racism, the Law and Justice party have been...
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