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Articles

New World Order w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring more analysis from Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on the shape of global geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington’s shredding of the liberal international order’s legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with China; Gaza genocide; Trump’s tariff wars and militarism, and his pivot toward Putin on Ukraine; European defense buildup and fiscal revolution; what this all means for the poor majority of the Global South, and more. Part one of a two-part series.
Workers Organizing Workers w/ Eric Blanc

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring Eric Blanc on We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Interview conducted by guest host Gabriel Winant.
Slopworld w/ Brace Belden and Liz Franczak

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring TrueAnon hosts Brace Belden and Liz Franczak on our freakish and reactionary tech oligarchy. Musk and friends built a technological infrastructure that has warped everyone’s minds, including their own.
Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions to the class domination of capital and struggles against it.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDigRead Mike’s article “The Problem of Class Abstractionism” epublications.marquette.edu/socs_fac/356Buy Enemy Feminisms at Haymarketbooks.comBuy Solidarity Betrayed at Plutobooks.com
Psychiatric Struggle w/ Danielle Carr

2 months ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring Danielle Carr on the history and present state of American unwellness and how that’s been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones and social media.
Deportation Nation w/ Chris Newman

2 months ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring Chris Newman on Trump’s far-right anti-migrant agenda and Democrats’ cruel and stupid complicity. Read All-American Nativism versobooks.com/products/704-all-american-nativismRead Dan’s essay on Gaza and migration politics in n+1 nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/do-borderTrump’s immigration executive orders propublica.org/article/donald-trump-immigration-executive-ordersSupport The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigBuy After Accountability at Haymarketbooks.com
Building the Union w/ Hannah Srajer

2 months ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring Hannah Srajer on building tenant unions by applying labor organizing models. The Connecticut Tenants Union is partnered with SEIU 1199NE to organize fighting super majority tenant unions that win collectively bargained leases and wield working class political power. It’s a model that’s spreading nationwide.
Abolish Rent w/ Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal

2 months ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal on their book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Tenant unions fighting to transform Los Angeles, the country, and the world. Use code ‘DIG50’ for 50% off your first order at Plutobooks.com
Newsletter #99: US Imperial Hubris in Central America

Jan 19, 2025 | thedigradio.com | Dennis Hogan |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

By Dennis M. HoganThe Dig’s series of episodes on Central America takes us through the deeper history of a region whose past is by turns tragic and strange, filled with stories of struggle, heroism, imperial terror, political cruelty, and popular resistance.