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In the face of a renewed global crisis of overproduction, the imperialists have determined that, in the present conditions, their best chance of saving themselves and their system remains in huddling together under the military and economic leadership of the USA and aiming their combined force at the destruction of the primary centers of independence and sovereignty in the world – Russia and China. In doing so, they hope to bring about a repeat of the carnival of pillaging they enjoyed after the collapse of the USSR. They want to break Russia and China into pieces, subdue their peoples, and ...

The economic depression ongoing since 2008 has put the dangers of fascism and imperialist world war, but also popular revolts and revolutions, back on the agenda. While the working class and oppressed communities around the world have been rising in revolt for more than a decade, no revolutionary organization adequate to face up to the task of bringing down the bourgeois order has crystallized. Meanwhile, the Covid-19 pandemic and the danger of fascism have been ravaging humanity. In this presentation, we will consider the tactic of Workers’ United Front as a way out of the dilemma facing the revolutionaries today ...

Sun, Feb 27, 2022: 10:30am-12:30pm PT The US Covid Catastrophe: Pathology of a Failed System On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Almost two years have passed, and we in the US are now approaching 80,000,000 cases and close to 1,000,000 Covid deaths - the largest number of any country in the world - with no clear end in sight. The pandemic has swept through US society, leaving a path of disease, suffering, death, political and social upheaval, and economic destruction in its wake. The response by the US  government and capitalist politicians has been ...

Latin America and the Caribbean have taken on a becoming pink complexion, all the more sowith historic left victories this year in Colombia and Brazil. These electoral rejections of therightwing followed left victories last year in Peru, Honduras, and Chile. And those, in turn, cameafter similar routs in Bolivia in 2020, Argentina in 2019, and Mexico in 2018.This surging “Pink Tide” protests the neoliberal model imposed by the US and its collaborators.Neoliberalism has failed to meet the needs of the peoples of the region and is losing itslegitimacy as a prototype for development. However, the countries of the region must ...

This Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library session covers the attacks on the pro-Palestine, anti-genocide movement being made in the name of "fighting antisemitism," A group discussion  follows several short presentations on the subject ...

In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in property damage, and the firebombing of a white-owned corner grocery store, before the National Guard restored an uneasy peace. Despite glaring irregularities in the subsequent trial, ten young persons were convicted of arson and conspiracy and then sentenced to a total of 282 years in prison. They became known internationally as the Wilmington Ten. This lecture addresses three general questions: What occurred ...

The world working class and unions of the world are facing a major global struggle as the crisis of capitalism drives towards dictatorship and world war. Steve Zeltzer will look at the declining US imperialist empire and the intensifying inter-imperialist rivalry and the growing move towards a world war that threaten workers and people of the world. He will also look at the increasing attacks on the unions and the escalation of attacks on the working class to pay for the crisis.This also takes place in the midst of the frenzied development of AI and the likely loss of hundreds ...

Starting on December 1, 1934, when Leningrad Party leader Sergei Kirov was assassinated, leading to capture,trial and execution of a Party member Leonid Nikolaev, a number of conspiracies shook the Soviet Union's Communist Party. As revealed in the three Moscow trials, although Trotsky's followers hotly contest it to this day, the 1929 exiled former Party member and once the Commissar of War, Leon Trotsky; was at the center of these conspiracies, Furr and Bobrov's research is based on newly released files from the archives after the fall of the USSR. In his new book, Furr & Bobrov examine the conspiracy ...

Professor Rasmus will connect the dots between the Trump-Zelensky minerals deal, why the US wants out of Ukraine war and NATO, why DOGE proposes $2T cuts in foreign aid & domestic US spending. Reason: US empire’s maintenance cost is no longer affordable as currently structured and US elites are in process of restructuring it to reduce the cost and to prepare for future competition with BRICS and confrontation with China. Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of the numerous books, including The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic ...

As the imperialist warmongering by the US, NATO and the EU against Russia has recently escalated into a proxy war in Ukraine, a revolutionary party, "The Revolutionary Workers’ Party (DIP, Devrimci İşçi Partisi in Turkish), has taken an unflinching anti-imperialist stance that distinguished it from most organizations and groupings on the Left. In this session, we will discuss the role of Turkey as a NATO ally in this war, and the strategy revolutionaries in the NATO countries should take towards the war. We will talk about Turkey’s involvement not only in Ukraine as a NATO country but also its involvement ...

Turkiye (the new and improved name replacing Turkey) is in a nosedive toward a total collapse.  This is an expected route of all neo-colonial countries dependent on imperialism.   A new section of capitalists is using the NATO Gladio criminals to implement a narco-state to keep the economy alive in Turkiye.  Privatization and marketization of every aspect of life have come to a total failure. Unprecedented Corruption at every level, bribery, theft, eco-destruction, gang rule, and the rise of deadly attacks, especially on women, shows the limits of a market economy in a dependent, neo-colonial country.   Turkiye is in dire need ...

Turkiye has come to the end of its rope, living the “good life” without producing but borrowing constantly and selling off its assets, pennies-to-the-dollar. Now the country is in a total collapse with the bills becoming due and nothing to show from all the years of endless wasting away of the national resources under capitalism.  Neocolonialism was created to be like this. Imperialism holds the client states in constant disequilibrium, debt, and violence, yet nurtures the hope of sitting at the table with the big boys one day. Unless there is a workers' revolution and a planned economy to reverse ...

Israel’s criminal violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and other parts of West Asia has increased the possibility of a full-fledged regional war, which can easily escalate into a global, possibly nuclear, confrontation. The U.S. is not in any way restraining the Zionist’s escalation of the war and the continuation of genocide. The imperialist project and the Zionist project are one and the same. Without active U.S. diplomatic, financial, and military support, Zionist Israel would not have been able to commit such crimes. The ever-increasing U.S.-Israel military attacks on the regional resistance movement is based on the awareness ...

Sun, Feb 13, 2022; 10:30am-12:30pm Bourgeois ideologists have been successful in obscuring the class basis of various international conflicts. Too few on the Left actively counter those narratives.  We will discuss the consequences of this failure for the struggle for working-class power, using Ukraine as a kind of case study.  Attendees are invited and urged to bring their insights and knowledge to the discussion.  Richard Fallenbaum, a member of ICSS will make a brief introduction. Resources: ...

Sun., February 23, 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm Pacific TimeUkraine War End Game?Speaker: Allan Miller and Slava Jalili Events are unfolding rapidly as we approach November 24th, the third anniversary of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Our speakers, Allan Miller and Slava Jalili, will provide important background information on the war, and an analysis of these current events. Allan Miller is a member of the ICSS Program Committee. Slava Jalili is a US-based anti-Banderist Ukrainian-American with friends and family in Ukraine ...

On Feb 4, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with China's President Xi Jinping at tthe opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing  They released a 5000-word document, "Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development." This document expresses the views of two of the world's largest nuclear powers, both permanent members of the UN Security Council. As such, it merits full discussion and we are inviting a panel to lead our discussion ...