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The administration at City College of San Francisco is planning to lay off over 50 full-time tenured faculty and to replace few, if any, retiring faculty. Even before the pandemic, despite expecting increases in funding, they planned and acted to lay off 250 part-time faculty for the Fall 2020 term. The number of faculty at CCSF have been reduced by over 40% in the last ten years. These actions have come at the expense of CCSF’s predominantly working class and lower middle-class students of color. Their education opportunities have been greatly reduced. Rick Baum has been teaching American Government part-time ...

The application of Neoliberal Economics had its beginning with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. It held its sway for almost four decades starting when China allowed G-7 capital to exploit a vast pool of labor power, but unlike in the past when it resulted in failed economics in the Third World, China rose as an economic giant in just three decades, with the Communist Party of China firmly controlling the process. The US workers largely lost good industrial wages even as they benefited from cheaper consumer products imported from China in these three decades. But lately the ...

Sunday Morning at the Marxist LibrarySun., June 8, 2024: 10:30 am-12:30 pm PDTThe Great Patriotic War and its AftermathSpeaker: Mark Albertson June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler hurled 3,300,000 German troops against the Soviet Union, the start of the greatest land war in modern times. It will be the Soviets who will win the land war, defeating the German Army, not the United States and the Western allies. During the second chapter of the Great War, Britain will incur 495,000 dead; 405,399 for the US. A colossal 25,000,000, one of every seven in the Soviet Union, will die in 47 months ...

With just a few days to go, the 2024 federal election campaign is on track to be the costliest ever, with at least $15.9 billion in total spending (OpenSecrets). Yet for all the massive amounts of political advertising, media coverage, web and social media hype, stage-managed mainstream candidate interviews and debates, and even widespread talk of "the End of the American Dream" ... Little or nothing of real substance is being said about the unprecedented challenges facing capitalism and the US working class and small business owners in November, 2024. Join us on November 3rd, just two days before the ...

We will have a group discussion on the lessons of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany and the significance of the worldwide celebrations of Victory Day 2025.   Join us with your ideas, comments, and questions for what should be a lively and informative session! ...

Sun., November 23, 2025, 10:30 am-12:00 pm PST The history and current aggression of the US against Colombia and Venezuela Speaker: Dan Kovalik Dan will be speaking about the history and current aggression of the US against Colombia and Venezuela. Daniel Kovalik served as in-house counsel at the USW for 26 years at its headquarters in Pittsburgh.  While with the USW, he served as counsel for Colombian Plaintiffs against US Corporations, including the Coca-Cola Company for alleged human and labor rights violations.  He also taught International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of law for 12 years.  Dan has written ...

Matthew Ehret will recall the  Gouzenko Hoax of 1945 that started the Cold War against socialism and tie it to the current anti-Communist psyop propaganda blitzkrieg. Matthew is a journalist and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Patriot Review, Senior Fellow at the American University of Moscow and co-host of The Great Game on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media. He has authored the book series “The Untold History of Canada”, the four volume “Clash of the Two Americas” and the most recent book “Science Unshackled” ...

The imperative need to develop a Leninist United Front to combat the menace of Fascist and White Supremacist attacks in today’s US Sunday, August 8, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific time Speaker: Elazar Friedman The presentation will use two models as diagnostic tools. 1.) The Ernst Meyer led KPD’s model of United WC Front and the lessons of abandoning this powerful model in the third period and then zig zagging to class collaborationist coalition People’s Fronts-betraying Proletarian class independence 2.) The 1984 United Front like action at SF Pier 80 led by Howard Keylor Longshore of the Trotskyist ...

THE KILLER’S HENCHMAN, Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster - Sunday, Feb 6, 2022: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Pacific Time Stephen Gowans investigates why, when all the tools to avert a catastrophe were available, the world failed to prevent the Covid-19 disaster. He examines the business opportunities and pressures that helped shape the world’s failed response. His conclusion: the novel coronavirus, a killer, had a helper in bringing about the calamity: capitalism, the killer’s henchman.Resources: Stephen Gowans' blog https://gowans.blog/ ...

The London Revolution 1640-1643 refutes the attacks of revisionist historians who would write the concept of revolution out of history. A defense and restatement of the Marxist view of the English Revolution and Civil War. Chronicles England’s history through the revolution in 1641 – 1642, which toppled the feudal political system, and its aftermath. It explores how London’s growing capitalist economy fundamentally conflicted with its decaying feudal society, causing tensions and dislocations that affected all classes in the early modern period. In contrast with most other works, this book posits that the fundamental driving force of the revolution was the ...

Advances for the working class in Mexico, lessons from Morena’s landslide victory in the 2024 presidential election. The presentation will focus on the role that public policies that favored the interests of the working class played in the landslide victory for Morena and its allies that resulted in the election of Mexico's first woman president and supermajority in Congress. The presentation will also look at what we can expect from Sheinbaum's government. What does she mean when she talks about building the "second floor" of Mexico's Fourth Transformation? Finally we will discuss, given the rout of the country's opposition and ...

'The presentation will include clips from a documentary film and current footage from Labor Notes 2022 Conference with commentary. Not pedantic or dogmatic -- more observational with moments of humor (sorely needed). Anne Lewis is an independent documentary-maker and professor of practice at UT-Austin. Her work reveals working class people fighting for social change. Anne was associate director/assistant camera for HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. After the strike, she moved to the east Kentucky coalfields where she lived for 25 years. Documentaries she produced, directed, and edited include: ANNE BRADEN: SOUTHERN PATRIOT; MORRISTOWN: IN THE AIR AND SUN, a working class critique ...

Our speaker, Steve Martinot, will describe how police militarization rests on the foundation of the militarist ethic by which the police operate. The government has seen fit to supply the police with military equipment, which has consequences both for the people subjected to the presence of such weaponry and for government intentions. The second half of the presentation will be on the relation of police militarization to the structures of racialization in the US. Lifelong social justice activist Steve Martinot has worked as a machinist and organized a number of shops. Steve organized a trucking company in New York City, ...

South Asian nation states were formed at the end of WWII, when Colonial Imperialism was given a body blow by the war. Britain, France and other European colonial capitalist states were badly weakened. Socialism was in ascendency, but US capitalism was also advancing. Today capitalism is in decline and is in its rottenest stage in the G-7 countries. The impact of it in South Asia will be examined, keeping in view the short military conflict between India and Pakistan. Raj Sahai is a retired engineer and has been a researcher and activist with the Institute of Critical Study of Society, ...

According to our speaker, the Biden administration’s lawfare against Trump issupported by the left because of their own McCarthyism. The national security state,through the Biden administration, is engaging in lawfare to eliminate Biden’s onlyserious challenger and fix the 2024 election. Much of the progressive movement, ratherthan protest and stop police state interference, is supportive of it, even though thislawfare will be used against them in the future. The cause for the silence among liberalsand leftists is their own McCarthyism: people are baited, and fear being baited – not asReds, but as Trump supporters. This left McCarthyism pushes people towards voting ...

The conflict and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has overshadowed developments in the West Bank. Yet the situations in the two occupied territories are inextricably linked to the convulsions of Israeli politics, the shifts in global geopolitics, and additionally manifested in the West Bank in the actions of the Israeli settler movement fully supported by the Israeli State. We take a look at how this has been impacting Palestinians on the ground, and their resistance to it. Dr. Sharat G. Lin is a political economist with the San Jose Peace & Justice Center, Human Agenda, and the Initiative for Equality. He ...