State of US & Global Politics, Myths About Socialism, French Popular Front & US Origins [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this patrons-only Q&A seminar, Brian & Nicole discuss the rise of the far right in the recent EU Parliament elections and assessments of U.S. political mood in 2024 elections, the racist character of U.S. capitalism, the formation of a new popular front in France, how socialism could look in the United States, 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, but not without you. |
| 0:23.1 | A number of us were involved in creating the human red line around the White House on June 8th. |
| 0:30.7 | 100,000 people came. |
| 0:32.8 | We had a two-mile-long red banner with the names of the people in Gaza who have been killed since October 8th. |
| 0:41.5 | And it was a dramatic action. We picked up on the theme showing the hypocrisy, double standard, |
| 0:48.4 | lying character of the Biden administration. Biden himself, it said, if there is an invasion of Rafa, the southern |
| 0:56.3 | city in Gaza, where all the people in Gaza who had already lost their homes and their families |
| 1:03.3 | in large measure, who had taken refuge in Rafa, if the Israelis of Netanyahu ordered the invasion |
| 1:09.8 | of Rafa, it would be a red line, |
| 1:12.7 | and Biden would then stop sending American weapons to Israel. |
| 1:17.3 | Now, we all know this story because we've talked about it so much, and all of you are following it on the news. |
| 1:23.6 | But at a certain point, it gets normalized in the media. |
| 1:27.7 | Oh, yeah, the invasion of Rafa. |
| 1:29.5 | Oh, yeah, another massacre. |
| 1:30.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:31.6 | Well, what about what Biden promised a month ago? |
| 1:34.8 | He said this would be the red line. |
| 1:37.3 | This would be the end of the road for American support for the Israeli war in Gaza. |
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