Hello a world to win listeners and welcome to this our first episode of

2021 and what a year it is turning out to be already. This week I'm going to be talking to Baskar

Samkara founding editor of Jackman magazine and author of The Socialist

Manifesto, The Case for Radical Politics in an era of extreme inequality.

So we're going to be discussing what is going on in America right now as an assortment of right-wing

extremists and white supremacist storm the capital building, with one woman reportedly having been fatally shot.

As well as the implications of the event that set all this off, which was the victory of

Raphael Warnock and John Osoff in Georgia, that has given the Democrats control over the Senate.

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Hello, Baskar SankKara, and thank you so much for joining me on this week's episode of A World to Win.

And what a week it's been, am I right?

Yes, it's been every week, week you know there's just more and more insanity but it is good to be talking with you

Grace I missed my annual trip to the UK so I imagine this labor party conference I imagine this

Labor Party conference would have been more depressing anyway.

I think that we used to last you know the last four of them before that but yeah I mean US politics has always been

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