Welcome to the Michael Brooks show. We're broadcasting live from downtown Brooklyn, USA where we state the obvious. It's a coup in Bolivia with super producer Matt Leck.

No. Chief economist David Griskem. How's it going?

On this week's program, former Ecuador and foreign minister Guillermo Long. We're talking about the coup in Bolivia. What comes next?

The current anti-austerity wave in Ecuador. And is there a next phase for the left in our hemisphere? And then, in fact, globally as we look at anti-austerity marches in ongoing in Lebanon.

In Iraq, in Iran, and Haiti, across the globe. The yellow vest never really stopped in France. Then independent wrestler David Starr.

Good buddy of mine. War Lula Leveray trunks. He's going to be talking about unionizing wrestling, unionizing sport in general.

Major piece of entertainment in the world. And there's a lot of workers overworked and underpaid. For the shout out, we have Bernie's whistleblower plan. And we have a gem, of course, with David Griskem.

A jam packed post game where we go over the bad, a guy by the name of Yasha Monk, who's very bad, also very boring and very bad.

Elizabeth Warren, with her just Rube Goldberg healthcare plan. What are we doing here, folks? And Pete Buttigieg, what the hell are we doing here, folks? Jesus Christ, this is embarrassing.

All that plus an update from Chile, where massive repression is being used to suppress those protests, young people marching through the streets with eye bandages, as rubber bullets by the Chilean military have blinded so many.

And an update from the UK, where Jeremy Corbin and Boris Johnson have just debated, polls don't look good, but grassroots momentum might still save the UK from Tory destruction and catastrophe.

And then, of course, a debunk, it's on some of the delusional press coverage of Pete Buttigieg, all that. And much, much more on today's this week's Michael Brooks show.

And just I've realized guys just really quick technical note in the outline for the shadow, we need to get the whistleblower page up from Bernie's site.

But first, let's start by talking about Algeria. Algeria's revolution in the 1960s was one of the most significant events in global history and specifically anti-colonial history.

And it also reflects some of the contradictions and limitations as well as possibilities of anti-colonial projects.

I always recommend that everybody read Vijay Prashad's people's history of the third world, where he talks about how necessary vital and heroic liberation struggles can often replicate basically local bourgeoisie and other forms of traditional political and economic bases.

The Algerian revolution was one of the most brutal and important anti-colonial struggles.

After one independence from France, it became a meeting place for radicals and revolutionaries. People always talk about Algiers in the 1960s, where people from Asia, from North America and everywhere else came as hosted by the Algerian revolutionary FLN government, national liberation front government for meetings, for global coordination on revolutionary and socialistic activities.

But this incredible history, just as with India, just as in some of the dynamics we see with the African National Congress, these incredible courageous struggles that have done so much and achieved such vital victories have not always carried out the same liberatory spirit in practice.

And of course today, Algeria is a site of incredible struggle and contest from below. In 1991, there were the first multi-party elections allowed in the country.

The results were canceled by the military after a strong showing and in fact winning showing by the Islamic Salvation Front, which promised to create an Islamic state.

This of course feeds that sort of horrifying political tendency, which was all too predominant in modern politics between discredited nationalist politics and reactionary religious politics that would occur in the Middle East and North Africa.

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