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August 30, 2019 Behind the News: Hong Kong and Kashmir
Writer Brian Hioe updates us on the Hong Kong protests. Then, Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_India_Progressive_Women%27s_Association&action=edit&redlink=1) (AIPWA), on India’s ongoing crackdown in Kashmir
52 min
August 29, 2019 The Vast Majority: "It's the Demand of the People That Creates Real Change" with Heidi Sloan
Heidi Sloan is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America running for Congress in Texas's 25th district. She's challenging a Republican incumbent, used car salesman, and incredibly rich person Roger Williams.Sloan recently sat down to talk about her story, her work with homeless people in Texas, how she came to join the DSA, her socialist political vision, and which corporate supervillain she would most like to grill as a member of the House of Representatives.Read more about Heidi at her website: https://heidifor25.com/
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41 min
August 29, 2019 The Vast Majority: "It's the Demand of the People That Creates Real Change" with Heidi Sloan
Heidi Sloan is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America running for Congress in Texas's 25th district. She's challenging a Republican incumbent, used car salesman, and incredibly rich person Roger Williams.
Sloan recently sat down to talk about her story, her work with homeless people in Texas, how she came to join the DSA, her socialist political vision, and which corporate supervillain she would most like to grill as a member of the House of Representatives.
Read more about Heidi at her website: https://heidifor25.com/
41 min
August 28, 2019 The Dig: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Indigenous History
Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about Indigenous people's history to reexamine all of history, the present, and our possible futures.
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1 hr 28 min
August 23, 2019 The Dig: Keywords of Capitalism with John Patrick Leary
Ordinary language is the sound of hegemony; it is also an archive of the struggles to overturn it. Language is an institution and a constantly emergent field of struggle; it is the product of power relations and it is also itself power relations. Dan interviews John Patrick Leary, the author of Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism.
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2 hr
August 23, 2019 The Dig: Keywords of Capitalism with John Patrick Leary
Ordinary language is the sound of hegemony; it is also an archive of the struggles to overturn it. Language is an institution and a constantly emergent field of struggle; it is the product of power relations and it is also itself power relations. Dan interviews John Patrick Leary, the author of Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism.
Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com (http://www.versobooks.com)
Support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig (Patreon.com/TheDig)
2 hr
August 22, 2019 The Vast Majority: "What is the Rank-and-File Strategy, and Why Does It Matter?" with Barry Eidlin
The question of how socialists should engage with the labor movement has always been a critical one. One proposal: the rank-and-file strategy, which the Democratic Socialists of America adopted in its recent convention. But what is it? Labor sociologist Barry Eidlin explains.Barry Eidlin is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States in Canada.Read Barry's short explainer on the rank-and-file strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/rank-and-file-strategy-union-organizingRead Barry and Micah's article on the "militant minority" here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0160449X19828470 (Behind an academic paywall, but message Barry or Micah on social media to get a PDF of it)Read Kim Moody's 2000 pamphlet on the strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/unions-socialists-rank-and-file-strategy-kim-moodyBuy Barry's excellent book here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781107514416?aff=TomLutz
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41 min
August 22, 2019 The Vast Majority: "What is the Rank-and-File Strategy, and Why Does It Matter?" with Barry Eidlin
The question of how socialists should engage with the labor movement has always been a critical one. One proposal: the rank-and-file strategy, which the Democratic Socialists of America adopted in its recent convention. But what is it? Labor sociologist Barry Eidlin explains.
Barry Eidlin is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States in Canada.
Read Barry's short explainer on the rank-and-file strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/rank-and-file-strategy-union-organizing
Read Barry and Micah's article on the "militant minority" here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0160449X19828470 (Behind an academic paywall, but message Barry or Micah on social media to get a PDF of it)
Read Kim Moody's 2000 pamphlet on the strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/unions-socialists-rank-and-file-strategy-kim-moody
Buy Barry's excellent book here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781107514416?aff=TomLutz
41 min
August 21, 2019 Jacobin Radio: How to End Homelessness; Eugene V. Debs
Suzi talks to UCLA law professor Gary Blasi, a longtime housing activist and advocate for the homeless about the staggering increase in homelessness in LA city and county (indeed across the country). But there are misconceptions about what is driving this surge in people living on the streets. Put simply, says Blasi, homeless people are homeless because they cannot afford housing, mostly in neighborhoods where they have grown up. We get Blasi's analysis of the scope of homelessness, the effectiveness — or lack thereof —of city, county, and state measures to deal with it, as well as what more can be done.
Suzi then talks to author and activist Paul Buhle about his graphic biography of the American socialist and labor leader Eugene V. Debs — one of the most important Americans of the twentieth century according to Bernie Sanders, who also called Debs “the most effective and popular leader that the American working class has ever had.” We hear about Debs’s life, ideas, and struggles as a fighting union leader of the Pullman railroad strike and Socialist Party leader who was jailed for opposing World War I and ran for president from prison, winning over a million votes.

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54 min
August 16, 2019 The Dig: Socialist Manifesto with Bhaskar Sunkara
Dan talks to Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara about his book The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. We must study socialism's history and plan for its future.
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2 hr 6 min

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