Amazon Unionist Chris Smalls on Defeating a $2 Trillion Monopoly
April 27, 2026
In this absolute masterclass on how to fight back, Chris Smalls is showing the world exactly how he took on Jeff Bezos and a $2.2 trillion monopoly and won. After Amazon fired him for demanding basic COVID safety, their top executives sent a leaked memo calling him not smart or articulate. Well, that not smart worker just led the first successful union drive in Amazon’s history at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island.
While Bezos was spending over $4 million on professional union-busters and literally blasting himself into space, Chris was at the bus stops. He was handing out free food, weed, and warmth to exhausted workers coming off 12-hour shifts. He’s exposing the industrial athlete lie, the reality where workers are treated like robots, monitored every second by algorithms, and discarded the moment they break down.
The elite count on us being too tired and too broke to care. They assumed a guy with a GoFundMe and no formal experience couldn’t touch them. But Chris proves that the corporate machine has zero clue how to handle someone who actually cares about the person next to them. He didn’t use fancy consultants; he used the trust he built working side-by-side with the people they were exploiting.
The power has always been with the people, we just forgot how to use it.
Listen to this amazing speech and share.
Source: @theleft_eu
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English Script:
Chris Smalls: And when people ask me, how the hell did you organize against a $2.2 trillion company and the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, who was making $13 billion a day, $9 million an hour, $5,000 a second. The answer is simple. The answer is actually here in this room right now. The answer is the power of people when we come together. There’s no amount of money in the world that can stop the power of people when we come together. Well, you know what will change something? Direct action and starting a revolution and a revolution starting with yourself. So we all need to do more. Because the worst thing we could do right now is nothing. When you leave here today, don’t just listen to our words. Ask yourself, remind yourself who really has the power. And as the people, the people will always rise above. Power to all people and solidarity forever. Thank you.
