Episode

9/12 Bhaskar Sunkara: The UK’s Labour Leadership Contest & Building a Left Party in the US

September 12, 2016

Michael Monday today with Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray), talking Jeremy Corbyn and the contest for the Labour leadership. What Corbyn’s resilience means for the future of the Labour party. Why Labour’s prospects for victory in the next election are narrow. The exodus of workers from the Labour party. What it means for the left to take over Labour. How Labour is more easily influenced to the left than America’s Democratic Party. How third parties take off.

On the fun half – Pence gravely defends Trump supporters as “not a basket of anything,” Obama halts the North Dakota Access Pipeline, Trump wants to fill the Supreme Court with Scalias, and your calls and IMs!

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