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A World to Win: Border and Rule w/ Harsha Walia

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Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

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🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, Grace talks to author, writer, and organiser Harsha Walia on her book Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.

They discuss the nature and location of the border, its functionality to global capitalism and imperialism, and how the Left can organise to resist right-wing populism in the age of nationalism and climate breakdown.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a world to win, a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely

0:17.7

bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action from around the world.

0:22.7

This week I talk to Harshawaliya, author, writer and organizer, on her book Border and

0:27.8

Rule, Global Migration, Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. We discuss the

0:33.4

nature and location of the border, its functionality to global capitalism and imperialism, and how

0:38.8

the left can organize to resist right wing populism in the age of nationalism and climate

0:43.7

breakdown. Thank you so much to our amazing patrons

0:46.9

you make this show possible. If you want access the full hour long episode of this show,

0:51.1

as well as full length interviews with previous guests like Naomi Klein and Dr Cornel West,

0:55.6

support us on Patreon at patreon.com slash a world to win pot. There's a link in the description.

1:01.4

If you want to support the show in another way, please give us a rating on iTunes to keep us

1:04.8

up in the charts and share your favourite episodes on social media, tagging at a world to win

1:09.6

pot on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. As always, a big thank you to Reverend and the Makers,

1:14.6

who've let us use their track Heavyweight Champion of the world as our intro and outro music,

1:18.3

and now here is Harshawaliya on her motivations for writing border and rule.

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Hello, Harshawaliya, and thank you so much for joining me on this episode of Well to win,

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how are you doing today? Good, thank you, thank you so much for having me.

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Not at all, it is a pleasure to have you on the show, and today we're going to discuss your most

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recent book, Border and Rule, Global Migration Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism,

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which I think is a really brilliant book that kind of changed the way I think about borders,

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and I really recommend that readers buy it, it's out now with Haymarket,

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and we'll put a link in the description. So, Harsh, can you tell us a little about why you

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