A World to Win: Left Bloc w/ James Schneider
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🗓️ 21 August 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Grace is joined by James Schneider, former Head of Strategic Communications for Jeremy Corbyn and the co-founder of Momentum, to talk about his book Our Bloc: How We Win. They discuss challenges facing the left—and how we can bring together disparate parts of our movement into a coherent bloc to build power.
A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory, and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of A Well To Win. This week I am joined by James Schneider, |
| 0:18.9 | former Director of Communications for Jeremy Corbyn and the co-founder of Momentum to talk |
| 0:24.9 | about his book Our Block, How We Win. We talk about the challenges and opportunities facing |
| 0:31.5 | the left in the UK and around the world and how we can bring together all the disparate parts |
| 0:37.6 | of our movement to build a coherent block to build power. As always, thank you to our patrons |
| 0:45.2 | who make this show possible. If you want to become a patron, you can go to patreon.com, |
| 0:51.7 | stash A Well To Win pod. There's a link in the description. Please do consider doing so because |
| 0:56.4 | we need your support to continue bringing you the show. If you want to support us in another way, |
| 1:01.1 | please do share this episode or other episodes on social media, tagging at A Well To Win pod |
| 1:07.0 | on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Now a quick word from our sponsor before this episode with |
| 1:12.4 | James Schneider. This episode of A Well To Win is brought to you by Haymarket Books, which has |
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| 1:42.2 | that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism and the media can help us |
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| 1:53.4 | where readers in the US and UK receive free shipping on orders over $25 or 20 pounds respectively. |
| 2:05.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of A Well To Win. I am here with James Schneider, the former |
| 2:11.6 | director of Communications for Jeremy Corbyn, the co-founder of Momentum and current communications |
| 2:17.3 | director for Progressive International. We are going to be talking about his new book, |
| 2:22.7 | Our Block How We Win. How are you doing today, James? I'm doing extremely well. How are you? |
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