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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thedigradio.com | Ben Mabie |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir
By Ben MabieDuring The Dig’s thoughtful reconsideration of the past and future of ‘Third Worldism,” Aziz Rana remarks on a somewhat distinct feature of the revival of internationalist sentiment in the North Atlantic left, particularly in the United States, in the period of the Iraq War.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Ben Mabie
This August, during Z’s fundraising drive, we are asking you to take action with us. It’s time to get up and stand up, not just in opposition to all the horrors unfolding around us, but to stand up FOR something in unity and strength. To provide a forum and tools for diverse activists to propose, not just oppose, has been Z’s mission for nearly 50 years.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Tracy Rosenthal |Alex Press |Ben Mabie
Workers have been in crisis for decades. Stagnant wages have meant a declining standard of living, leading to social catastrophe. Declining life expectancy, rising alienation and estrangement, astronomical rates of violence — none of this is the direct result of jobs getting worse, but they aren’t entirely unrelated either.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
thedigradio.com | Ben Mabie |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir
By Ben MabieStretching over thirty hours so far, “Thawra” has grown into the audio equivalent of a doorstop of a monograph: the audible equivalent of a truly massive six-hundred-page volume.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
thedigradio.com | Ben Mabie |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir
By Ben MabieWe are about eight months into Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, and eight months into the powerful solidarity movement that has curbed — though totally failed to stop — the development of a second and now live-streamed nakba.
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May 26, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Ben Mabie |Tim Barker |Sam Adler-Bell
Tim Barker and Ben Mabie join to tell the story of American labor militancy in the 1930s — and how the right responded.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
thedigradio.com | Ben Mabie |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir
By Ben MabieFor most of this calendar year, The Dig has been dedicated to producing “Thawra,” our rolling miniseries with Abdel Razzaq Takriti on the history of Arab radicalism and the making of the modern Middle East.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
thedigradio.com | Ben Mabie |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir
By Ben MabieStarting in the 1980s, a tremendous scholarly, public, and political debate surfaced in West Germany over how the Nazi period should be integrated into German historiography — and generally how everyday Germans should remember and consider the period in relation to themselves and to the present. This was called “the historians’ dispute.”This debate forms the immediate backdrop to the German ideological scene analyzed in Emily Dische-Becker’s phenomenal interview.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
thedigradio.com | Ben Mabie |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir
By Ben MabieIn the years following World War II, a series of Marxist studies attempted to make sense of the globe-shattering conflict. There was a felt need to parse the distinct but parallel struggles that were bound up in its unfolding.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
thedigradio.com | Ben Mabie |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir
By Ben MabieIn the winter of 1936, black workers, writers, artists, socialists, and communists gathered at Washington, DC’s Howard University for the inaugural meeting of the National Negro Congress (NNC). The NNC was a mass-movement organization launched by the Communist Party, a broad front that aimed to focus anti-racist organizing and enhance coordination with a resurgent labor movement through the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The NNC named the editor and union organizer A.
