Dig: How to Build a Fighting Labor Movement w/ Jane McAlevey
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🗓️ 15 April 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Featuring Jane McAlevey on how to organize mass numbers of new workers into unions that wage mass strikes to fight employers and revive the labor movement.
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Dan's 2019 interview with McAlevey thedigradio.com/podcast/strike-with-jane-mcalevey
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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 |
| 0:04.6 | and by Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles |
| 0:08.6 | perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:11.1 | One that you might like is The New Cold War, |
| 0:13.6 | the United States Russia and China from Kosovo to Ukraine, |
| 0:17.0 | by Jill Bear Ashkar. How did we get here? |
| 0:20.4 | As leading international relations scholar, |
| 0:22.8 | Jill Bear Ashkar details in this book, |
| 0:25.4 | the rivalries of the Cold War didn't disappear with the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
| 0:30.2 | They simply mutated into new forms. |
| 0:33.3 | Frighteningly, The New Cold War has become increasingly hot in the European theatre, |
| 0:38.9 | ratcheting up tensions in ways we have yet to reckon with. |
| 0:43.0 | As Nome Chomsky puts it, |
| 0:45.1 | learned and incisive, ranging easily from broad geopolitical analysis |
| 0:49.7 | to the details of policy formation. This masterful study of The New Cold War of the past 30 years |
| 0:56.5 | by the scholar who first identified and studied it |
| 1:00.1 | is an indispensable guide to the current global disorder and its ominous portent. |
| 1:06.8 | The New Cold War by Jill Bear Ashkar, out now from Haymarket Books, |
| 1:12.2 | and available at haymarketbooks.org where US and UK readers |
| 1:16.3 | receive free shipping on orders over $25 and 25 pounds respectively. |
| 1:26.8 | Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jackman Magazine. |
| 1:35.2 | My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
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