Anti-War w/ Ben Mabie & Salar Mohandesi
The Dig
Daniel Denvir
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Featuring Ben Mabie and Salar Mohandesi on what the war on Iran tells us about US imperialism, and why the US doesn’t have a massive anti-war movement even amid historic anti-war public sentiment. Capitalist states have changed war-making in ways that insulate imperialism against popular resistance. We must make movements that can thrive and win under new conditions.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners, who support us at patreon.com, |
| 0:05.2 | and by University of California Press, publishers of the book, Anti-Eviction, by Manissa Maharaville. |
| 0:13.0 | Anthropologist and scholar activist Maharaville tells a galvanizing story of how everyday people |
| 0:18.6 | built a powerful anti-eviction movement in gentrified San Francisco. |
| 0:22.6 | Based on first-hand accounts from tenants facing eviction, this book offers concrete strategies for organizing, as well as lessons for the broader housing justice movement, beyond California. |
| 0:35.7 | Learn more about anti-eviction at UCpress.edu. |
| 0:45.1 | Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. |
| 0:53.3 | My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 0:58.7 | We need a giant, powerful anti-war movement to crush U.S. imperialism. |
| 1:06.3 | Trump's illegal war of aggression on Iran makes this absolutely clear. We have an American public that is |
| 1:15.4 | overwhelmingly anti-war. And yet, we don't have that giant, overwhelming anti-war movement. |
| 1:23.5 | That's what I'm discussing today, with Ben Mabee and Salar Mahondisi. |
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| 2:13.6 | And UK listeners, we are out of tickets for our London party with Equator magazine coming up on March 13th. |
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