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Episode 503 Promo - Labor is Complicit (w/ Christian Smalls)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The American labor organizer who founded the first independent, worker-led union at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse Chris Smalls recently made headlines when he was illegally detained by Israel after joining the recent Gaza Freedom Flotilla headed to Gaza to break Israel's illegal siege, and deliver food and medical supplies. Smalls explains how he and the one Arab member of the flotilla were treated differently from his fellow crew members, how he was assaulted & strip searched, and how he was abandoned by the US embassy (in contrast to how other governments supported their nationals). Moreover, he dives deep into his betrayal by labor leadership and leftists leaders like Bernie Sanders and AOC who remain silent on Small's capture and assault to date. Chris reveals plans to develop a new labor party that cannot be ignored by Dem-captured labor leadership, the need to leave the Democratic Party "plantation," and why he won't be supporting an AOC 2028 run. 

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0

whether it's not calling a ceasefire.

0:02.1

I think I even mentioned this before about Sean canceling on Cornell West to bring Joe Biden to the convention.

0:09.1

That's the actual thing.

0:10.7

So it's really calling people out, holding them accountable too.

0:15.5

There's nothing wrong with that.

0:16.7

I hope to see ranking file members within their unions do more of that.

0:21.6

You know, I understand that the UAW has some really good resolutions that were passed for Palestine, that were pro-Palestine.

0:29.4

But you can't talk out of both sides of your mouth.

0:32.4

You can't call a ceasefire and also endorse the Democratic Party, which is enabling genocide. That's just the contradiction

0:40.7

is well played in our faces. And I believe, once again, the younger generation is not going to

0:47.6

stand with that. Well, this brings us to the AOC and Bernie Sanders of it all. And you've been very

0:51.9

vocal about your criticism and disappointment that they were very willing to throw their arms around you in the context of the Amazon

0:58.9

organizing, labor organizing. But have they still now weeks out, not said anything at all

1:06.2

about your detention and physical abuse by Israel?

1:12.7

No, absolutely not.

1:14.1

And I don't expect them to.

1:15.6

I already seen it coming from before.

1:19.0

I even left that their tour, the oligarchy tour,

1:23.5

the claiming that Israel has a right to defend itself,

1:27.1

the statements over and over and over again.

1:29.3

It's in our faces. So I didn't expect them to. They are compromised. They are class traitors, if you want to call it.

1:36.3

You know, people want to sugarcoat things, but I don't. I never did. And that's not what got me to where I'm at now. I always spoke truth to power.

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