Episode 241: This Is FASCISM & Needs To Be Defeated: Resisting Trump/MAGA Fascism & the Genocide in Gaza

This Is FASCISM & Needs To Be Defeated: Resisting Trump/MAGA Fascism & the Genocide in Gaza   The show begins with news reports of fascist attacks, from the US to the West Bank: the chilling arrest of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the attack on and beating of Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian filmmaker and recent Oscar recipient, by an Israeli lynch mob, and finally, the extralegal deportations of hundreds of legal immigrants from Venezuela – to a hellhole torture prison in El Salvador. AND, Bob Avakian on the need to reach out to all who are outraged by Trump MAGA Fascism, for collective action and self-sacrificing struggle to DEFEAT this fascism. Introduction, with hosts Annie Day and Sunsara Taylor. Andy Zee talks about very important work and mobilizations, especially the broad protests being called by the group Indivisible on April 5, and taken up by many other groups and movements. He'll be talking about the work being done by Refuse Fascism. Then, from the Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025: What is happening, how fascism can be defeated and a whole different and better future be won. Finally, Annie Day with a closer look at the massive escalation of genocide in Gaza, and the lynch mob terror in the West Bank of Palestine.   Watch this episode on YouTube.