Mass Arrests of Workers in U.S., Trump’s Policies Unite China, Russia, Iran & North Korea Into Anti-Hegemony Coalition [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Brian and Layan discuss the mass ICE raids and arrests in the last days of hundreds of workers at an auto factory in Georgia and a food production facility in Syracuse, NY. They also discuss the massive military parade in China that drew prominent attendance from the leaders of Russia, India, North Korea, Iran. Trump’s aggressive policies are creating a new coalition of countries opposed to U.S. hegemony.
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| 0:26.9 | The U.S. government's war against the working class has reached a fever pitch with mass |
| 0:32.6 | ice raids and arrests in the last days of hundreds of workers at an auto factory in Georgia and a food |
| 0:39.5 | production facility in Syracuse, New York. Meanwhile, Trump plans to send military forces to Chicago, |
| 0:47.4 | Baltimore, and other cities. I'm Leanne Seema Fulahan here with Brian Becker, and this is |
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| 1:17.1 | Leanne, it was disgusting. |
| 1:22.0 | These workers were in their factory working at 9 a.m. |
| 1:25.6 | in the morning in Syracuse earlier this week when ICE agents came from all directions using crow bars to ply open |
| 1:30.5 | factory gates, factory doors. People were running. They were obviously scared. They were mass |
| 1:37.5 | arrested. Again, this is upstate New York, western New York. But it's all over the country. |
| 1:42.9 | The raid that took place on Friday at the Hyundai |
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