Brazil’s Elections, Nordstream Explosion, Anti-War Movement, and More [Brian Becker Seminar #18 - Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this patrons-only seminar, Brian analyzes Secretary of State Blinken's gloating about the Nordstream pipeline explosion and what this tells us, what is needed for a big anti-war mobilization, and how to effectively provide mutual aid. He also talks about Brazil's presidential election, with popular left candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva winning in the first round but headed to a runoff against far-right Jair Bolsonaro, and the U.S. government's view on it, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:02.9 | This is the audio of our monthly seminar. |
| 0:05.3 | Subscribe and support this programming at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to join live once a month and ask Brian Becker your questions and listen to them as soon as they come out. |
| 0:16.2 | Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. |
| 0:19.6 | We can make this program with you, |
| 0:21.1 | but not without you. Lula came out number one in the polls yesterday in Brazil because Lula did not |
| 0:29.6 | win 50% plus one. It goes to a runoff. The outcome of this election is extremely significant |
| 0:36.7 | because Bolsonaro is such a far-right |
| 0:39.5 | candidate. Some of Bolsonaro's closest friends and colleagues also won. There were some right-wing |
| 0:45.8 | victories in some significant gubernatorial races in Brazil. Of course, Brazil is the biggest country |
| 0:52.7 | in Latin America. It's also part of Bricks, the biggest country in Latin America. |
| 1:00.9 | It's also part of BRICS, the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa Alliance. |
| 1:07.0 | The alliance was formed based on progressive or left-leaning or leftist or communist-led in the case of China governments, major emerging governments that tried to create bricks |
| 1:13.0 | as a counterpoint to U.S. hegemony. So we're all going to be looking very, very carefully, |
| 1:19.5 | hopefully at the outcome here in the next month. But again, this is going to be a close race, |
| 1:26.0 | I think, a very close race, and the impact and the |
| 1:29.3 | outcome of it is going to be very significant. I also do want to say, Nicole, before we |
| 1:34.7 | start with the questions, that for the last three or four years, I've been working on a project, |
| 1:41.5 | well, at least three years, it's about three and a half years, to create |
| 1:45.4 | a book which would become a core document from which there will be derivative pamphlets and videos |
| 1:52.9 | about what socialism would look like if socialists formed a government in the United States. |
| 1:59.2 | If after a revolution there was a socialist government, |
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