#1468 Winning battles against the forces of neoliberalism around the world
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 February 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Air Date 2/4/2022
Today we take a look at several vignettes of recent victories against conservative governments implementing exploitative, neoliberal policies that inspired the people to fight back. We will hear from the recent elections in Chile and Honduras, the massive farmer protests in India and the protest movement against deregulation or petroleum prices in Kazakhstan. Activists, take note.
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SHOW NOTES
Socialist Gabriel Boric takes the majority of the vote in Chile, changing the politics of the country. Socialism won over fascism. Now we wonder what will the imperialist countries do about a socialist country in South America?
Ch. 2: Two Interviews on Chile - Behind the News - Air Date 12-28-21
Doug speaks with Antonia Mardones Marshall on the recent presidential election and its winner, Gabriel Boric. Plus: Antonia Atria, in an interview from October 2020, on that country's constitutional referendum.
“It’s brought hope to the entire country,” says Faridd Sierra. Years of corruption and conservative law-making “showed the Honduras people just how cruel the [National] Party was and … they voted in response,” adds Suyapa Portillo.
Ch. 4: India's huge farmer protests, explained - Vox - Air Date 12-30-20
Thousands of India’s farmers have set up camp in Delhi.
I'm joined by Navyug Gill from William Paterson University to talk about the historic victory of the Indian Farmers who, after demonstrating for a whole year at the cost of 750 lives, succeeded in forcing the repeal of three farming reform laws.
Ch. 6: Kazakhstan's Oyan protest movement w/ Paolo Sorbello - This is Hell! - Air Date 1-20-22
Journalist Paolo Sorbello on his article "‘Our activism won't stop': The Oyan movement recounts the January protests in Kazakhstan" for Global Voices, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tangles with all-pervasive networks.
Ch. 7: Has Socialism Broken The Chains of Neoliberalism? - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 12-21-21
In these days of dark news from the rise of militarism to a new wave of Covid, there are green shoots: neoliberalism is finally being replaced by social democracy around the world & in America.
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Ch. 10: Final comments on getting focused on effective politics
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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Description: Three elderly Indian men with white beards, wearing turbans (pagri) and a jacket, vest, and sweater (respectively), sit on wall. Each man has one fist raised in the air. The man in the middle holds a long bamboo staff with his other hand.
Credit: "Three protestors at the 2020-2021 Indian Farmers' Protest" by Ravan Khosa, Wikimedia Commons | License | Changes: Cropped to square
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at several vignettes of recent victories against conservative governments implementing |
| 0:13.1 | exploitative neoliberal policies that inspired people to fight back. |
| 0:18.0 | We will hear from the recent elections in Chile and Honduras, the massive pharma protests |
| 0:23.8 | in India and the protest movement against the regulation of petroleum prices in Kazakhstan. |
| 0:30.8 | Activists take note. |
| 0:32.8 | Clips today are from the Tom Herman program, behind the news, democracy now, Vox, the |
| 0:39.8 | anti-impyra project, and this is hell with an additional members only clip from the anti-impyra |
| 0:46.6 | project. |
| 0:53.6 | So tell me what happened in Chile over the weekend. |
| 0:57.6 | Well, I mean, we had a pretty clear win. |
| 1:00.6 | You just said it. |
| 1:01.6 | Bored each one the elections. |
| 1:05.6 | Quite convincingly. |
| 1:06.6 | I mean, we're on 99.99% of the vote counts very close to 100. |
| 1:11.6 | They're just checking a few, a few last ballots that have observations. |
| 1:14.6 | And he is clear to your head, you know, 55.8% of the vote in the run-off. |
| 1:22.6 | Versus 46.2. |
| 1:24.6 | So he's winning. |
| 1:27.6 | He's the victory of the left against the not just the right, not just the conservative right, |
| 1:34.6 | but against his opponent, or the Antonio Cast, who is a very right-wing figure, who sort of a |
| 1:41.6 | pinotino-style chick who said a lot of things that some analysts might consider as sort of neo-fascistic, |
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