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Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. This year, Besamer became famous as the Birmingham suburb

where Amazon warehouse workers waged an audacious campaign to unionize that failed in the face of

overwhelming opposition from one of the largest corporations on earth. Workers and organizers

inspired people everywhere not only because they took on Amazon, but because they framed their

struggle to unionize the majority black workforce as simultaneously a fight for the working class

and for black freedom. In doing so, they tapped into a long history of radical struggle in Alabama,

including the Alabama Communist Party's fights throughout the 1930s to organize sharecroppers,

mine and mill workers, and unemployed people, and to fight widespread and absolutely brutal racist

anti-worker anti-communist repression at the hands of police and vigilantes alike.

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