The Dig: Strike! with Jane McAlevey
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🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
The strike is back, and big time. Teachers in particular have been walking off the job not only to demand higher wages but also to fight for an end to privatization and for a transformation of the educational system for their students. These strikes, often led by women, are no doubt inspiring, and they have won important victories for workers and the communities they serve. We are, in other words, beginning to head in the right direction—but we're not heading there even close to fast enough. Winning working class power is not only necessary to meet people's immediate material needs. It is necessary if we are to accomplish a profound democratization of this country, which is what we must do if we are to implement a just energy transition that heads off what scientists have determined to be imminent climate catastrophe. Dan talks to Jane McAlevey about the labor movement and strikes.
Jane's Catalyst article The Strike as the Ultimate Structure Test.
And her Jacobin article Organizing to Win a Green New Deal.
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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 and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is feminism |
| 0:16.3 | for the 99% a manifesto by Cinsia Rutsa, Tithi Badacharya, and Nancy Frazier. |
| 0:24.3 | Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, health care, climate change, border policing. |
| 0:31.3 | Not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. |
| 0:35.0 | But don't these issues impact the vast majority of women globally? |
| 0:40.0 | Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, |
| 0:45.2 | this manifesto makes a simple but powerful case. |
| 0:48.8 | Feminism shouldn't start or stop, |
| 0:52.0 | with seeing women represented at the top of society. |
| 0:56.2 | It must start with those at the bottom and fight for the world they deserve. |
| 1:01.4 | And that means targeting capitalism. |
| 1:04.1 | Feminism must be anti-capitalist, eco-socialist, and anti-racist. |
| 1:10.3 | This is a manifesto for the 99%. |
| 1:14.0 | And if you haven't already, check out my recent dig interview with Tithy on this very manifesto. |
| 1:21.0 | Feminism for the 99%, a manifesto by Cincia Rutza, Tithi about Acharya and Nancy Frazier. |
| 1:29.0 | Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm |
| 1:47.4 | temporarily broadcasting from Santiago de Chile. The strike is back and big time. |
| 1:55.0 | Teachers in particular have been walking off the job |
| 1:59.0 | not only to demand higher wages, |
| 2:01.0 | but to fight for an end to privatization and for a |
| 2:04.5 | transformation of the educational system for their students and communities. |
| 2:09.0 | These strikes, often led by women, are no doubt inspiring, and they have won important victories |
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