Today is the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's infamous photo op with a Bible at a church

outside the White House, just moments after he promised to send the U.S. military against the people

of the United States who are protesting racism following the murder of George Floyd.

It is also the 100-year anniversary of the infamous racist Tulsa massacre in Oklahoma.

Today we talk about all this, but also we talk about the working class struggle outside the United States,

and in particular the huge opportunities and challenges facing the left-wing people's movements of Chile.

We need a new system. We need a new system.

We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded 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.

It's June 1st, 2021.

This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week.

We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the

corporate-owned media. If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming by going

to patreon.com slash the socialist program and subscribing. I'm Walter Smolerick, here with our host,

Brian Becker, Nicole Roussel, and Esther Rivera, are off this week. So Brian, today, the

anniversary of two infamous things, one 100 years ago, another just one year ago. Tell us a little bit

more. Right, Walter. Today is June 1st, 2021, the 100th anniversary of the racist Tulsa Massacre in 1921, directed against one of the most

prosperous black communities in the United States. Racist mobs of armed white people who had been

deputized by the police attacked and destroyed vast parts of the black community in Tulsa,

Oklahoma.

300 people were murdered, 6,000 black people were arrested,

...