Jacobin Show: Jane McAlevey on Organizing the Working Class Under a Biden Presidency

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the audio version of the broadcast on January 20, 2021.

Labor organizer Jane McAlevey joins us to discuss strategies for building a working class movement under a Biden presidency. And we cover the Biden inauguration, new initiatives to tax the rich, and the difference between political power and vigilante violence. Jane McAlevey has been an organizer and negotiator in the labor movement for over twenty years. She is also the strikes correspondent for the Nation, senior policy fellow at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, and author of the books Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), No Shortcuts, and A Collective Bargain.

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0:00.0	Thank you. Hey everyone welcome back to the jack-upin show. I'm Jen Pan and I'm here today with
0:17.7	Paul Prescad. Paul what's going on? Happy Wednesday. Did you watch the
0:22.1	inauguration?
0:23.0	I did. I had a great brunch today. I don't know how your brunch was, but uh...
0:27.0	Yeah, you know, I really enjoyed Garth Brooks. I haven't thought about him in like 10 years, so that was nice to see.
0:36.0	I know I was going to say, yeah, I, I, the whole like celebrity rollout I feel was very, very like the times before Trump, the times before the pandemic.
0:47.0	As you say in the case of Garth Brooks, the time before 10 years ago.
0:52.0	Yeah, I feel like he was sort of trotted out as the sort of bipartisan
0:55.8	avatar of like middle white-of-air-fare. I think it was the Democrats' culture war. This is like them
1:02.4	testing out their version of the working-class culture war.
1:05.8	Right, yeah, exactly, yeah. I mean, so on that note, like how convincing was Biden's message of unity?
1:12.3	Did it, did it move you?
1:14.8	I mean, no, but, you know, I mean, there's nothing that could unite people
1:20.8	more than the actual policies that people have already, you know, have expressed that will unite them such as,
1:26.8	you know, these broad universal economic policies that I think, you know, that's I think
1:31.6	where you can forge true unity but you know I think a lot of people
1:37.3	talk about the relief of today you know and obviously yes that
1:40.9	that Trump's no longer.
1:42.9	I also feel a kind of different type of relief
1:45.5	that, you know, I think for the left, broadly defined
1:49.1	and our type of left, like we,
1:51.1	I feel a little relieved that we don't have to keep following the
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