E68: This Black Friday, let’s Make Amazon Pay – with Yanis Varoufakis, Dusan Pajovic, and more
Channel: DiEM25
Date: 2022-11-22

For the third consecutive year, a global coalition of trade unions and political organisations, including DiEM25, will stand together against Amazon on Black Friday. This day of action will see strikes and protests take place around the world calling for an end to Amazon’s squeeze on workers, communities and the planet.

It once seemed like Amazon was simply too big to be fought effectively by workers and the Left. But recent initiatives such as Make Amazon Pay, and this year’s successful union drive in the US, have slowly but surely started to make dents in the giant corporation’s armour.

How can we use Amazon’s global presence against them to support these campaigns across borders, and what does the fight against Amazon tell us about our struggle against capitalism more broadly?

Our panel, including Yanis Varoufakis, Dusan Pajovic and Amir Kiyaei, debates. Join us live and send us your questions and comments!

Support the Make Amazon pay campaign: https://makeamazonpay.com/

0:00 [Introduction] Mehran Khalili
2:29 Daniel Kopp [Make Amazon Pay campaign coordinator]
6:50 Yanis Varoufakis
22:22 Questions and comments from the chat
23:27 Judith Meyer
27:42 Dusan Pajovic
32:07 Daniel Kopp [Make Amazon Pay campaign coordinator]
34:29 Yanis Varoufakis
36:24 Julijana Zita
39:10 Dusan Pajovic
40:35 Johannes Fehr
43:48 Julia Moore
45:44 Defne Dalkara
47:56 Amir Kiyaei
49:30 Questions and comments from the chat
50:02 Daniel Kopp [Make Amazon Pay campaign coordinator]
51:41 [Conclusion] Mehran Khalili

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