On the occasion of Brooklyn for Peace‘s 30th Anniversary Gala honoring Noam Chomsky, recipient of the Pathmakers to Peace Award. Interview by Dr. Partha Banerjee, labor educator and human rights activist.

“They’re facing this again,” Chomsky concluded, as “the base that they’ve had to organize — because their commitments are so far to the right — is one they’re having a hard time controlling. I don’t want to draw comparisons, but it has some similarities to what happened in Germany in the 1930s. I’m not the only one to point this out — leading German historians have pointed this out, and it’s frightening.”