From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper

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Who Moves America w/ Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll

Featuring Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll on Who Moves America, a powerful documentary about the massive 2023 Teamsters strike against UPS that ultimately did not happen. Find or request a screening of Who Moves America at whomovesamerica.com Support The Dig at Patreon ...  Show more

Confronting Labor’s Crisis w/ Chris Brooks

Featuring Chris Brooks on labor’s crisis and the strategic, militant class struggle that can turn it all around. Brooks, former chief of staff to UAW President Shawn Fain, urges organizers to be flexible in their methodology, explains the federal monitor’s anti-left lawfare again ...  Show more

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As U.K. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveils huge spending cuts and tax hikes in his Autumn Statement, host Ailbhe Rea looks back at the economic program still haunting the current debate: the austerity of the early 2010s. David Gauke, one of former Chancellor George Osborne's must tru ...  Show more

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