This is Jacobin Radio and I'm Susie Wiseman.

Robin Blackburn joins us for an extended conversation on the left-wing labor party leader Jeremy Corbin, his project and his prospects in Great Britain. Robin describes the economic conditions giving rise to the Corbin phenomenon and discusses

what structural changes a Corbin government could implement.

We're going to get his views on the prospects and proposals for an egalitarian shift in the UK with obvious lessons for the US and beyond.

All this when we return in just a moment on Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman and Robin Blackburn joins us today for an

extended conversation on Jeremy Corbin's Project and Prospects in Britain.

Robin has a new article in the May June Project and prospects in Britain.

Robin has a new article in the May, June 2018 New Left Review

called the Corbin Project.

And in it, Robin describes the economic conditions

that give rise to the Corbin phenomenon. The endless. the discusses what structural changes a Corbin government could implement.

We're going to get Robin's views on the prospects and proposals for an egalitarian shift in the

UK with obvious lessons for the United States and beyond.

And Robin Blackburn teaches at the graduate faculty of the New School University in New York

and in the Sociology Department of the University of Essex, and that's where we're talking to him.

He's a former editor of New Left Review, the author of many books including Banking on Death

or Investing in Life, the History and Future of Pensions, The Making of of new world slavery, and the overthrow

of colonial slavery, and Aed Shock, how finance is failing us.

Also the American crucible, many, many more.

He's written on Cuba, and he famously interviewed John Lennon with

Tarag Alley in 1971. So with all of that Robin, welcome to Jacobin Radio.

Thank you. Thanks.

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