#60 Racism and the global war on drugs w/ Kojo Koram
Politics Theory Other
Politics Theory Other
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The first cut on this record has been cross-format focused for Airplay success. |
| 0:05.0 | The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to |
| 0:21.6 | I'm going to |
| 0:23.6 | I'm |
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| 0:28.6 | the Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine. |
| 0:51.1 | My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Kojo Coram. We spoke about the history of |
| 0:56.2 | the war on drugs, the role of drug prohibition in the production of racism after the end of formal |
| 1:01.3 | imperialism and the central role of the United States in the emergence of the global war on drugs. |
| 1:07.6 | Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books, which has a great many left-wing titles that might be of interest to listeners. |
| 1:16.7 | One you might like to check out is Mario Tronti's Workers and Capital, universally recognised as the most important work produced by Opera Ismo, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that |
| 1:28.7 | revolutionised the institutional and extra-parliamentary left in Italy and beyond. Five decades |
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| 1:44.2 | Visit versobooks.com for more information. |
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