This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,

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One that you might like is Street Fighting Years, an autobiography of the 60s by Tariq Ali.

What makes a young radical?

Reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of 1968, street fighting years captures the mood and energy of an era of hope and passion, as Tariq Ali

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leading political activist. Through his personal

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the streets of Europe and America, the effects of the Vietnam War, and the aftermath of the

revolutionary insurgencies led by Che Guevara. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia,

encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and McJagger.

Street Fighting Years, an autobiography of the 60s by Tariq Ali.

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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Last week, I posted an interview that I recorded in Barcelona on Spanish politics. We talked about the question of Catalan independence and how it is served to sideline the left and questions of economic justice. And we discussed the municipalist movement

governing cities like Barcelona. What we really didn't talk that much about was the fact that

the conservative Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy was about to fall, which it did just a few days

later. And that is sort of important. So I'm bringing sociologist Carlos

del Clos back on today for a brief follow-up interview. I recommend that you listen to the big

episode we did on Spanish politics last week first, if you haven't already. Before we get rolling,

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