Hosted by AISC members Bikrum Gill and Corinna Mullin, this episode features Suzanne Adely, a movement lawyer, longtime Arab community organizer, and president of the National Lawyers Guild with decades of experience in international labor solidarity, and Sachin Peddada, Research Coordinator at Progressive International whose work maps military supply chains and the political economy of war. Together, they examine labor imperialism and labor Zionism through the intertwined struggles of Palestine and Venezuela. Situating the conversation in the wake of the November 28–29 Disarm Genocide Now days of action—when workers, unions, students, and communities mobilized to hold labor bureacrats accountable, uphold the Palestinian BDS picket line, and boycott Black Friday—the episode traces the historical role of U.S. labor institutions in sustaining Zionist settler colonialism and imperialist power, while recovering suppressed traditions of anti-imperialist and anti-racist labor internationalism from below. Moving from supply-chain disruption in solidarity with Palestine to the AFL-CIO's role in undermining the Bolivarian socialist revolutionary project in Venezuela, the discussion shows how labor struggles against genocide and sanctions are part of a single global fight against capitalist-imperialist accumulation—and why building militant, internationalist working-class power is essential to confronting both.

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