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Weekends: Pedro Castillo's Victory and the Future of British Trade Unionism w/ Ronan Burtenshaw

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Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from June 12, 2021.

Ronan Burtenshaw of Tribune joins us to discuss the contentious leadership election in Britain's largest union, Unite, and its massive implications for the entire UK. We also discuss how the law has been written to serve the interests of employers and what the recent victories for Pedro Castillo and AMLO's MORENA mean for the Latin American left

Read Ronan's article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/12/unite-general-secretary-unions-labour-left

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone? Welcome to Weekends, Anacasparian and Nando Villa with you. Nando, how are you?

0:22.0

Doing well, doing very, very well, excited for the Euros. Although I just saw right before we started the show,

0:28.0

there's a game going on right now, a match between Denmark and Finland, and one of the Danish players,

0:33.0

their biggest star, Christian Ericsson, just collapsed and looks like he made have had a heart attack.

0:37.0

What?

0:39.0

Yeah, in the middle of the game, he just collapsed, so that's ongoing. So maybe people in the chat will keep it updated,

0:47.0

but it's a pretty scary situation, because players have died in the past on the field.

0:52.0

Are they super young and healthy? How do they die from heart attacks?

0:58.0

Well, sometimes they have conditions that they don't know about, like some sort of genetic condition,

1:04.0

and they're healthy, and then all of a sudden their heart just gives out.

1:09.0

It's happened in the past, but yeah, literally, I just saw it one minute ago, right before we went live.

1:18.0

It's been such a crazy week for news. I don't even know where to start.

1:25.0

I was thinking about what to bring up for our banter today, and I mean, the week began with Kamala Harris

1:31.0

telling Guatemalans, don't come, don't come.

1:34.0

The White House throwing her under the bus over the way she handled interview questions by Lester Holtz,

1:41.0

where she said that she hadn't been to the border.

1:46.0

Obviously, the media starts to frame things from the right wing as if doing like a theatrical photo shoot or whatever

1:53.0

the border is going to solve our immigration problems.

1:56.0

Like, it was just an insane story.

1:58.0

And then it moves on to, oh, that wonderful exchange on the rising with Ryan Grimm,

2:06.0

and I don't know what the name of the cover is.

2:09.0

Oh, yeah.

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