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🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Suzi talks to historian Myrna Santiago and immigrants' rights specialist Alicia Rusoja, who just returned from a week at the border, where they talked to men, women, and child migrants, sat in immigration court, and spoke to support groups — as well as deported veterans, and deported mothers of Dreamers in Tijuana. Their reflections and revelations include the way abuse and corruption are adding to the horrors these migrants face. Suzi then talks to Daniel Finn about British politics: while the Tories are deciding whether Boris Johnson will be their next leader, the Labour Party has its own dilemmas — over its attitude to Brexit, but also how to deal with the surprisingly effective smear campaign against Labour’s left-wing leadership, in particular leader Jeremy Corbyn. Finn looks at the underlying controversy, and as he wrote in Jacobin, despite Corbyn’s unprecedented efforts to expel antisemites from party ranks (no such similar move in the Conservative Party), Corbyn’s critics will never be satisfied — their issue is Corbyn’s politics itself. This has great relevance for our own politics, as Finn explains.
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0:00.0 | This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Suzy Weisman. |
0:07.0 | We begin this podcast with the border. |
0:13.0 | Historian Meerna Santiago and immigrants rights specialist Alicia Rusoja report on their week at the border where they talk to men, women, and children migrants, |
0:22.0 | sat in immigration court, talked to support groups, |
0:25.4 | as well as deported veterans and deported mothers of dreamers in Tijuana. |
0:30.2 | We'll get their reflections and revelations that include the way abuse and corruption are adding |
0:35.1 | to the horrors these migrants face. |
0:37.8 | Then Daniel Finn joins us with his analysis of British politics. |
0:42.4 | While the Tories are deciding |
0:43.8 | whether Boris Johnson will be their next leader, |
0:46.3 | he probably will be, the Labor Party |
0:48.7 | has its own dilemmas over its attitude |
0:51.0 | to Brexit for sure, but also how to deal with the surprisingly effective |
0:55.0 | smear campaign against Labor's left-wing leadership, in particular Jeremy Corbyn. |
1:00.6 | Daniel looks at the underlying controversy and states in his recent Jacobin article that despite |
1:05.8 | Corbin's unprecedented effort to expel anti-Semites from party ranks, no such similar move |
1:11.8 | in the Conservative Party, |
1:13.5 | Corbin's critics will never be satisfied |
1:16.2 | since their issue is Corbin's politics itself. |
1:19.2 | This has great relevance for our own politics |
1:21.6 | and Daniel Finn, who also has an article on |
1:24.0 | Corbin Labor and the Brexit crisis in the July-August New Left Review, will |
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