New Witch Hunt Demonizes Peace with China, w/ Vijay Prashad & Manolo de los Santos
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 20 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Seventy-five years ago, a witch hunt was launched in the United States against peace activists and leftists who opposed the growing danger of war with the Soviet Union. Today, as the United States has adopted major power conflict with China as its main military priority, and the danger of military confrontation with China grows, there is a new witch hunt against peace activists. But people are fighting back all around the globe.
Brian Becker is joined by Manolo De Los Santos, the co-executive director of The People’s Forum in New York, and Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, and a prolific author, most recently publishing a new book with Noam Chomsky called “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power.”
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| 0:00.0 | 75 years ago, a witch hunt was launched against peace activists and leftists in the United States, |
| 0:10.0 | people who opposed the growing danger of war with the USSR, the Soviet Union. |
| 0:16.4 | Today is the danger of military confrontation with China grows. |
| 0:26.6 | As the United States government and the Pentagon have adopted major power conflict with China as a principal military and foreign policy priority, there is a new witch hunt against peace activists and against the left. |
| 0:35.8 | And people are fighting back. |
| 0:38.2 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:44.3 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of the Socialist Program. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:18.6 | Today we're talking with Manolo de los Santos. |
| 1:21.6 | He's the co-executive director of the People's Forum in New York City. |
| 1:26.6 | And also with Vijay Prashad, executive director of the |
| 1:29.6 | Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research. |
| 1:33.3 | He's the chief editor of Leftward Books, a prolific author, most recently publishing a new |
| 1:39.8 | book with Noam Chomsky called The Withdrawal, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the fragility of U.S. power. |
| 1:49.3 | Manolo, Vijay, welcome back. |
| 1:51.4 | Thanks. |
| 1:52.1 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:53.8 | Well, we're at sort of an important moment, a fork in the road, perhaps. |
| 1:58.2 | As I mentioned in the introduction, people are organizing a mass movement. |
| 2:02.2 | It's taking on the dimensions of a mass movement against the new Cold War and against the new |
| 2:07.5 | McCarthyism, choreographed with the New Cold War. I want to read from something that the People's |
| 2:14.7 | Forum and other organizations put out Man, and then get you to comment. |
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