Fighting the Corporate Duopoly at the Ballot Box (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report
About this episode
Chris Hedges interviews Kshama Sawant about her anti-capitalist campaign and challenges to the corporate duopoly in politics.
In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with Kshama Sawant, a revolutionary socialist based in Seattle, Washington, who is challenging long-time incumbent Democrat Adam Smith for Congress. Sawant served in the Seattle City Council for more than a decade during which she and her supporters won unprecedented victories for higher wages, affordable housing, taxing Amazon, LGBTQ rights and more. She then went on to organize a national working-class movement, Workers Strike Back. Sawant is building on that work by running a courageous and unabashed anti-capitalist campaign for the working class. Her platform includes defunding and opposing wars and genocide, supporting universal public health care, education and affordable housing, challenging the power of police and ICE agents, and advocating for LGBTQ rights, issues to which Democrats, even those who claim to be progressive, pay lip service at best. She frames her campaign in the current political moment where the billionaire class is wreaking havoc on people and the planet with the help of Democratic and Republican parties and gatekeepers in the labor movement who engage in ‘business unionism,’ which she…
People in this episode
Host: Chris Hedges
Guest: Kshama Sawant
Topics covered
- corporate duopoly
- political campaign
- working class
- socialism
- LGBTQ rights
- affordable housing
- public health care
Keywords
- Kshama Sawant
- corporate duopoly
- political campaign
- socialism
- LGBTQ rights
- affordable housing
- public health care
- Workers Strike Back
- Seattle
- Chris Hedges
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Democrat, Amazon, ICE, Workers Strike Back, Seattle City Council
Places: Seattle, Washington, United States
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