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Focusing entirely on local politics this week with a discussion of the multitude of ways that the National coalition government is currently attacking Māori alongside the longer term goals encompassed by the ACT Party’s racist “Treaty Principles” bill.

We chat with Anthony Metcalf and Martyn Pepperell about the state of the music and entertainment industries, what’s happening on the ground and what’s exciting for the future.

We’re joined by special guest Bevan Holloway to discuss his report on the Ministerial Advisory Group hijacking review processes to drastically change the curriculum while ignoring expert advice, process and institutional norms. We discuss the issues, the details and the implications alongside the broader rightwing strategy to subvert democracy in favour of ideologues.

Do we need a new party of the radical left? This is a crucial question facing anticapitalists in Aotearoa today.

We live in an era of extreme inequality. The threat of climate breakdown looms over everything. Yet governments around the world sit idly by as the rich get richer and the climate crisis worsens.

This week we talk about the clear lack of shift in the US genocide policy, including the recent escalation by IOF in the West Bank and VP Harris continuing Biden’s platform. In NZ the right-wing National coalition continues to break norms while passing anti-democratic policy without a mandate or giving the public an opportunity to make submissions - we discuss the last minute change to “gang laws” and the hijacking of the curriculum review.

We discuss the incredibly punitive changes to MSD social welfare systems, the introduction of new RSE rules and the open war being waged in NZ by the capital class on the most vulnerable workers.

We talk with University of Canterbury’s Jeremy Moses about BDS actions at UoC, countries boycotting Nagasaki commemorations and the shift of NZ towards integration with US military interests.

The National coalition government continues to decimate NZ’s public service and enact disastrous policy even as evidence and public opinion mount against them - we discuss the anti-democratic attack on Health services and the recently released Abuse in State Care report. Over in the US their genocide complicity has a fresh coat of paint in Kamala Harris, and liberals are flocking to the new campaign.

The ICJ has ruled the Israeli occupation of Palestine illegal. Donald Trump was shot at - what does this mean for the campaign and US politics. And what does a Trump/Vance ticket look like alongside increasingly misanthropic legislation - we look at the immense increase in anti-trans legislative attempts over the last few years.

UK Labour have won the 2024 General Election and we break down what happened, why and what this means for Labour and the left. What opportunities and risks does UK politics present over the next four years? And in the US the crisis of leadership continues as rumblings within the DNC about Biden increase, while his core supporters double-down on his run.

Back for another week of current events we kick it off with the US Presidential debate then descend into Israel’s seeming insistence on turning their genocide into a war on multiple fronts. Julian Assange is free, but Kanaky Independence leaders have been taken prisoner and shipped to France. And in NZ the National coalition is increasingly cruel and unfettered by evidence or reality.

Another current events episode, another week where there’s too much happening. We talk NZ infrastructure failures, Ministers who seem to be the antithesis of their roles, Luxon gaffes, Sinophobia and US disinfo, and the continuing genocide in Gaza.

We chat with Rowan Wernham, director of upcoming documentary Pistachio Wars, about water privatisation in California and the impact that billionaire agriculture has on the environment, local populations and global politics.

Another week with too many big events - we cover a bunch of them with as much depth as we can cram into an hour and a half. We discuss Israeli atrocities in the Nuseirat Massacre, the mid-week EU elections, the politics of NZ infrastructure, and the destitute state of NZ media when it attempts reportage on China.

We discuss the train wreck of UK politics and how it’s indicative of right-wing reactionary drift in western democracies. The US is playing the same game as it continues supporting a genocide and implementing Trump-era policy under a Democratic president. And things aren’t much better here in Aotearoa, either.