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'm joined by South Africa's former Trade and Industry Minister and Senior

Figuring the South African Communist Party, Rob Davies.

We discuss the impact of COVID-19 on South Africa, the de-industrialisation and

financialisation of the South African economy, and the urgent need for a global green new deal

in the wake of the pandemic. Last week, after our incredible episode with Cornell West,

which I'd encourage everyone to go back and listen to,

we hit 100,000 downloads, which is amazing after just a few months.

Please do remember to rate the show if you're

listening on iTunes as that's critical to keep us up in the charts and keep the

momentum going. Just scroll down and hit five stars. I also want to say a

massive thank you to all our patrons. We're just 300 pounds a month off our

fundraising target now so please do consider subscribing. All you have to do is hit pause and head over to

patreon at patreon.com slash a world to win pod.

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By becoming a patron you'll get access to the full hour long episode this week,

rather than the 45 minute abridged version, and to full hour long interviews with all our guests,

including Jeremy Corbyn, Naomi Klein, and of course Cornell West.

We're also going to be selling merch soon exclusively for patrons and providing exclusive offers

on subscriptions to Tribune and my forthcoming books, The Corona Crash and Futures of Socialism.

And a big thank you to the Lippman-Miloban Trust for providing us with the grant funding we've

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