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The Dig is a podcast from Jacobin magazine that discusses politics, criminal justice, immigration and class conflict with smart people. Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4839800
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Brazil w/ Sabrina Fernandes & Andre Pagliarini
Bolsonaro is presiding over mass COVID deaths and the destruction of the Amazon. Lula is free and polling way ahead for next year's presidential election. But the conditions that brought the far-right to power remain in place. Sociologist Sabrina Fernandes and historian Andre Pagliarini on Brazil.
Check out Sabrina's Tese Onze YouTube channel youtube.com/channel/UC0fGGprihDIlQ3ykWvcb9hg
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Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 2
The second of Dan’s two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba’s military defense of the Angolan government against a US and South Africa-backed effort to overthrow the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The future of the entire region was on the line—including the fate of apartheid in South Africa and of Namibia, then a South African colony.
Learn Southern African geography by studying these maps: thedigradio.com/visions-of-freedom-maps
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Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 1
Part one of Dan's two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba's military defense of the Angolan government against a US and South Africa-backed effort to overthrow the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The future of the entire region was on the line, including the fate of apartheid in South Africa and of Namibia, then a South African colony.
Learn Southern African geography by studying these maps: thedigradio.com/visions-of-freedom-maps
Support The Dig with money at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter.
Check out Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters by Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674245952 -
The Dawn of Everything w/ David Wengrow
Astra Taylor interviews archaeologist David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber.
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Check out Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789143799 -
Striketober
Guest host Gabriel Winant interviews labor journalists Alex Press and Jonah Furman, as well as IATSE member Victor P. Bouzi.
Listen to Primer, Alex's podcast about Amazon patreon.com/primerpodcast
Listen to Victor's podcast WAIT, Why Am I Talking? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wait-why-am-i-talking/id1515308564
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Strike! with Jane McAlevey
A Striketober episode from The Dig archives.
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Customer Reviews
Fascinating material week after week
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed so many episodes of The Dig thanks to fascinating interviews with really well informed subjects and a very well prepared host in the form of Daniel Denvir. As a labor radical and novice Marxist I’ve learned so much about the world and about the history of labor movements and revolutionary movements around the world. It’s a treasure to have this perspective in the midst of so much media driven almost entirely by monetary interests. I enjoy the new episodes and digging into the vaaaaaast archive when I need something new.
Favorite Podcast
The Dig is a treasure. I have learned so much from this podcast over the years. All the episodes are worth listening! I keep returning to my favorite interviews and learn something else with each time listening. Daniel does an extraordinary job with the interviews- he is always well prepared and is an extraordinarily engaged interviewer.
My favorite podcast
I learn so much from Daniel. It’s the type of podcast where I’ll share an episode with someone, we’ll both listen, and then have a conversation digesting it and sharing thoughts. Wonderfully accessible, even in fields where I don’t have any background - while still demonstrating cutting edge analysis in my domain expertise. I am always recommending this to friends.