On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Joseph Kishore, 2024 US presidential candidate for the Socialist Equality Party. He discusses the broad interest of the US population in seeking an alternative to capitalism and the view of the elites that the working class is the real threat to their power, the extreme economic inequality and poverty in the US, the working class’ hatred of the Democratic Party and their support for Donald Trump, Biden’s use of the trade union apparatus to suppress class struggle, the role of the intelligence services infiltrating the trade union apparatus, why Trump’s cabinet is a cabinet ‘by and for the oligarchs’, and the attack on immigrants as part of the building of a police state machine to crack down on the working class and opposition to the oligarchy. In the second half of the interview, he discusses the bipartisan support for Israel’s ‘fascist, criminal regime’, the Gaza genocide as an escalation of global imperialist war directed from Washington as the threat of war with Russia and China grows, why the root of the global conflict is the world economy vs. the nation-state system, his view of the BRICS+ bloc and his critique that they constantly seek an agreement with imperialism, what comes next for the US’ foreign policy towards Latin America, and much more.
