A New Era: Why Major Power Conflict?
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, John Prysner interviews Brian Becker. The struggle between imperialism and the people of the world goes on every day and everywhere. But the form taken by imperialism and the strategies it pursues is always changing. What are the main epochs of this history, and what lessons can be learned for the contemporary movement for justice and self-determination?
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| 0:00.0 | The struggle between imperialism and the people of the world goes on every day and everywhere. |
| 0:08.0 | This week, it will manifest in rival summits in Los Angeles. |
| 0:12.5 | One is hosted by the Biden administration and the alternative summit is being organized and hosted by a large coalition of grassroots organizations. |
| 0:21.6 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:28.6 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:05.0 | My name is John Prysner. It's June 7, 2022. Today we are going to be doing something a little different in this episode. |
| 1:14.2 | Because of our role in helping to organize the People's Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles this week, |
| 1:20.2 | today's episode will be a bit shorter and we will be talking only with our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:26.0 | In tomorrow's show, we will be joined once again by Marxist economist Richard Wolfe, |
| 1:31.3 | and on the Thursday episode of The Real Story, |
| 1:34.8 | we will be coming to you from the People's Summit in Los Angeles. |
| 1:39.0 | Video episodes of The Real Story are available on Breakthrough News. |
| 1:44.2 | Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern at YouTube.com slash breakthrough news. |
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| 2:01.1 | Brian, it's a big week and our focus this week will be here where I am and where you will be shortly in Los Angeles for the People's Summit. |
| 2:11.1 | Yeah, John, I think it's so important. |
| 2:13.1 | Again, for our audience, normally, you know, we have Esther and Walter, Nicole, and myself doing |
| 2:19.4 | in the news. That's a longer segment that we do. We record it on Monday, late afternoon. It |
| 2:25.1 | comes out Tuesday mornings as a podcast. This week, because of the People's Summit and the fact |
| 2:30.6 | that we're so deeply involved in the organizing, we're going to alter our schedule. |
| 2:35.4 | And again, what we'll do today, John, is really something, well, I'd say a little bit different, |
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