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Sunday, July 25, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific What Is the Crisis of Soviet History of the Stalin Period, and What Should We Do About It? Professor Grover Furr The history of the first workers’ state, the USSR, during its heroic period, when it was led by Joseph Stalin – that history is withheld from us. It is somothered by lies from influential, dishonest sources. In my talk, I will discuss the following topics: How do we know this is so? What is the situation? Who are the liars? How important is this? And most important: What should ...

ICSS 20210613 The communist party and the United auto workers union - Roger Keeran Sun, June 13, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific At the urging of union organizers today, International Publishers recently republished The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions, by Roger Keeran, a book originally published in 1980 and long out of print.  The author will discuss the circumstances around the book's original publication, the significance of the struggles it describes, and its relevance for our times.Resources: https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/the-communist-party-and-the-auto-workers-union/ ...

Rick Sterling will provide an update and analysis of recent events in Syria. Rick Sterling is an investigative journalist based in the SF Bay Area. He has written many articles about Syria, travelled there five times, and has contacts on the ground ...

American public discussion of socialism arguably hit a new level when Wally, the coffee-drinking, do-nothing character in Dilbert, the daily comic strip send-up of office politics, declared his conversion to that point of view. Unfortunately, as Wally's case reminds us, much of this increased socialism talk comes from people who don't like and/or understand the idea. That more of it needs to come from the actual left is clear. Less clear is exactly what we should say when we talk the talk. Simultaneously, a series of recent foreign elections -- most notably Germany's -- have prompted talk of a global ...

We need to analyze how the workers' struggle for socialism has changed from that of the past century.  In this session, we will go over the role of BRICS in the class struggle, why the U.S.-led bloc is the sole manifestation of imperialism today, and how to escape the patterns of stagnation that have long plagued much of the communist movement. Rainer Shea is a California, Humboldt County-based writer and activist who seeks to advance the class struggle and understand the conditions required of the class struggle’s participants.  You can find his writings on his Substack: https://substack.com/@rainershea ...

Beginning with the recognition that war is not so much between individuals as between states, we therefore examine Engels: "The society which organizes production anew on the basis of free and equal association of the producers will put the whole state machinery where it will then belong - into the museum of antiquities, next to the spinning wheel and the bronze ax" (Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State). Eugene E Ruyle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Cal State Long Beach, and President of the East Bay Chapter of Veterans For Peace (Berkeley/Oakland) ...

American workers stand on the precipice of an uncertain future. Behind them lies a century of U.S. global dominance. Marxists argue that imperialist expansion, buttressed by the world’s most powerful economy, produced this primacy, while capital garnered enormous profits from both foreign and domestic labor. For decades, especially in the mid-20th century, much of the American working class shared in these gains—through rising living standards, union growth, expanded social benefits, and advances in racial and gender equality. Today, however, after decades of gradual economic decline, U.S. economic, political, and military hegemony is foundering. As a result, the working class faces ...

A huge, unprecedented strike of academic workers started on November 14th, hitting all ten University of California campuses like a ton of bricks. The 48,000 striking workers perform the majority of the teaching and research at UC, yet the pay and benefits for these workers, members of the United Auto Workers union, is way too low especially for high-cost-of-living areas like Berkeley, California. The UC Regents, who run the university and represent the most powerful business interests in the state, have so far refused to bargain over wages. Come to a special session of Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library ...

 Professor Aleksandr Dugin of Russia has a wide sweep in scholarship, from Philosophy, Sociology to Geopolitics. He is 60 years of age. He has written 60 books. His book 'The Fourth Political Theory' has been translated into English by Michael Millerman, a Canadian, with a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Dugin is an idealist conservative philosopher. Liberalism, according to Dugin, is the theory of Capitalism, which has defeated its two challengers in the 20th century: Communism on the Left and Fascism on the Right. These cannot now pose an effective challenge to it. Further, that Liberalism has turned into "Postliberalism" after 1991, ...

Dr. Halbi will present on the class character of the Chinese state. touching on changes in the conditions of the working class in China, why we cannot call China socialist but also why the Chinese state is such an important advance for the international working class. He will also cover the nature of US imperialism's antagonism towards China. Speaker will be Wadi'h Halbi , Communist Party, USA ...

Carlos L. Garrido- “The Comprehensive Crisis in the U.S. and the Revolutionary Way Forward” In line with the tradition of Marxism-Leninism, this presentation argues that the elements constitutive of objectively revolutionary conditions are all present in the U.S.; what is missing for a successful revolutionary movement is the subjective factor. The presenter will argue that the purity fetish which predominates the outlook of modern American communism has presented a fundamental fetter for the development of the subjective factor in the American working masses; the development of a consistent dialectical materialist worldview, it will be argued, is the precondition for the ...

Our speaker will be Professor Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston has published dozens of books. Hear his presentation on his latest: 'The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism', 2022, which has implications for California and Indigenous History--and the prospects for a unique form of fascism ...

 Pleading with arsonists to put out the fire they’ve ignited is what it is like to turn to the UNSecurity Council, OAS, and United States government to “stabilize” the crisis in Haiti.Haiti has been under US/ UN occupation for more than 18 years, ever since the US-backed coupd’état in 2004 against the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Thisoccupation has perpetrated gross human rights abuses including rape and other forms of sexualabuse. The occupation has brought cholera to Haiti and has systematically destroyed Haiti’sinstitutions while increasing hunger and misery.Courageously facing police and paramilitary attacks, the population of Haiti has taken to ...

The Current Crisis in Cuba: A historical and conjunctural perspective. Sinan Koont is Associate Professor of Economics (emeritus) at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His visits to Cuba began in 1993 with a 3 month long sabbatical stay at the University of Havana in the middle of the Special Period in Cuba that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since then he has  visited the island many times (three times with students) and published numerous articles (mostly on Urban Agriculture in Cuba) and a book titled Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba (University Press of Florida , 2011) ...

Project Censored and award-winning investigative journalist Peter Byrne present his groundbreaking exposé on the dangerous militarization of artificial intelligence—and the profiteering that drives it. Byrne, known for his deep investigations into the intersection of science, industry, and government, uncovers how Silicon Valley, the Department of Defense, the banking sector, corporate media, and scientific institutions are collaborating to develop AI for military use. Northern California-based journalist Peter Byrne combines investigative reporting with science writing. In 2017, Peter's 11-part series in the Point Reyes Light “Busted: Breast Cancer Money and the Media” won the top science writing award from the American Association ...

The presentation will examine the 1979 Iranian Revolution—one of the twentieth century's most significant national democratic revolutions—and the forty-seven years of confrontation with imperialism that followed. It will explore why Islamic forces assumed leadership of this revolution and why it succeeded so swiftly compared to similar movements crushed elsewhere. The analysis then turns to the relentless U.S. policy of regime change, from the very beginning to the present day, including the ongoing aggression of the U.S. and its regional proxy, Israel. Finally, we examine how decades of external pressure have shaped Iran's internal class dynamics, political factions, and the current ...