Against Multipolar Imperialism w/ Kavita Krishnan⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Promise Li⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Romeo Kokriatski (Rerun)

For this rerun episode, Elia Ayoub is joined by Kavita Krishnan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavita_...) , an Indian Marxist and Feminist who used to be a politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation who resigned over Ukraine. He is also joined by ⁠Promise Li⁠ (https://lausancollective.com/author/p...) , a US-based Hong Konger organizer and part of the Left diaspora collective ⁠Lausan (https://lausancollective.com/) . Co-hosting this episode is ⁠Romeo Kokriatski⁠ (https://english.nv.ua/korrespondents/...) , a Ukrainian-American journalist, managing editor of the ⁠New Voice of Ukraine⁠ (https://t.co/iRDteos8vf) and co-host of the ⁠Ukraine Without Hype⁠ (https://anchor.fm/ukraine-without-hype) podcast.



The topic: why the idea of multipolarity needs to be understood & critiqued, and why the left cannot abandon anti-authoritarianism and internationalism.



Note: Due to Russia's ongoing bombardments of Ukraine, Romeo's power went out towards the end of the episode so we had to continue without him. 



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Links:



My piece for Lausan Collective: ⁠The periphery has no time for binaries⁠ (https://lausancollective.com/2021/per...)
⁠Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11757/97817...) by Angana P. Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen and Christophe Jaffrelot ⁠ (recommended by Kavita Krishnan)
⁠Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets: Facing the Liquidity Tsunami (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11757/97810...) by Ilias Alami (recommended by Promise Li)
Regular updates on India can be found on ⁠The India Cable⁠ (https://www.theindiacable.com/)



Previous episodes with Romeo Kokriatski:




• Anti-Imperialism From the Periphery (https://thefirethesetimes.com/2023/09...) w/ Leila Al Shami & Dana El Kurd


• When War Gets Normalized, Or What’s At Stake in Ukraine (https://thefirethesetimes.com/2023/04...) w/ Mariam Naiem


• Ukraine Series: 2. From Ukraine, with Love (and Anger) (https://thefirethesetimes.com/2022/03...)


• Russian Imperialism, Cynical Discourse and Life Amidst War (https://thefirethesetimes.com/2022/08...) w/ Mariam Naiem


• A View on Ukraine, Hong Kong & Tiananmen, from Taiwan (https://thefirethesetimes.com/2022/06...) w/ Wen Liu & Brian Hioe




Previous episodes with Promise Li:




• From Hong Kong to Lebanon, Basebuilding Against Authoritarianism (https://thefirethesetimes.com/2021/05...)




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