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

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

This week I talked to Doug Henwood, Marxist, journalist, host of behind the news podcast

and author of many books, including my personal favourite, the classic Wall Street, how it

works and for whom. We discuss Biden's stimulus package, his tax hikes and what's been going

on in US stock markets, as well as how workers can organise in the post-COVID economy.

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of the world as our intro and outro music. And now here is Doug Henwood on Biden's infrastructure plan.

Hello, Doug Henwood. And thank you so much for joining me on this episode of a world to win.

How are you doing today? I'm good. Thanks for having me. I hope we can win that world.

So do I. Today, we're obviously going to be talking mainly about the imperial core,

the imperial hegemon of the world economy, the United States, where you are right now, I believe.

Well, I went off the coast of America as somebody used to say.

So yeah, I mean, the first thing I guess I want to talk about is Biden. I was doing an interview

the other day on just kind of a fairly mainstream radio station in the UK. And I was asked,

do you think that the move that Biden has done in the US, which is to run from the centre and

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