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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 ...

After the defeat of the revolutionary Filipino independence movement in 1902, Filipinos became the largest colonial workforce in the United States. Immigrant Filipino agricultural workers enabled the transformation of U.S. agriculture from simple small-scale farming into the corporate behemoth we have today. Decades of intense class warfare between Filipino agricultural workers and U.S. agribusiness capitalists culminated in the historic 1965 Grape Strikes of Coachella and Delano. Mary Jane Galviso, a member of the Filipino Farmers Cooperative in the California Central Valley, was born and raised in the California Imperial Valley. She will talk about her life as a young worker ...

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 ...

Dr. Jack Rasmus will present a realistic analysis of the economic, geopolitical and military forces after four years of conflict — not the wishful thinking that permeates much of the analysis on the left or the propaganda promoted by the imperialists. Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of numerous books, including The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Bush (2019), Central Bankers at the End of Their Rope? (2017),  and forthcoming The Twilight of American Imperialism.  Jack is the host of the weekly radio show, ...

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 ...

Just back from Ukraine, where he is reporting for Moscow-based RT and making a documentary on Donbass, correspondent Don Courter will give an update on recent events in the Russian Federation and the situation in Ukraine ...

For an empire seeking “full spectrum” dominance, strategic control of global oil resources iscritical. A prelude to a planned sustained Middle East campaign by the US/zionist forces was theprior attack on Venezuela, possessor of the world’s largest petroleum reserves.The US has focused imperial aggression against the Bolivarian Revolution because ofVenezuela’s regional and indeed global importance. Confronted with resolute resistance inVenezuela and the unity of its political/military leadership, the US escalated the offensive withthe kidnapping on January 3 of Venezuela’s president. The US government and corporate press propaganda campaign endeavors to sow disunity anddemoralization, linked to the latest overt acts of ...

Can there be peace in Korea under the US imperialistic strategy?  Can there be peace in Korea when the US is at a virtual war with China? Simone Chun's talk will show that the greatest threat to peace and stability in northeast Asia is the U.S. imperialistic quest and military encirclement of China. She will argue that the US peace movement must seriously oppose US imperial policy as a focal point of its struggle, and join its voice with the South Korean public as they campaign to regain their sovereignty and independence. Simone Chun is a researcher and activist focusing on ...

In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire. See: https://www.laprogressive.com/africa/us-shoots-itself-in-the-foot Our Speaker, Ann Garrison, is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who publishes regularly on the Black Agenda Report. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region ...

US war threats in Korea have reached an all-time high, sending tensions on the peninsula spiking. In 2023, the US military conducted 200 days of war games in Korea—some of which rehearsed the “decapitation” of North Korea’s leaders, and even brought nuclear capable weapons systems to Korea. With the peninsula at the brink of war, there is an urgent need to organize sustained domestic opposition to US imperialism in Korea from within the belly of the beast. Join us to hear an anti-imperialist overview of the current situation on the Korean peninsula and to learn more about the US Out ...

Greg Godels returns to the Marxist Library to speak on what is the threat of fascism currently in the US and the uses to which that threat is put? Where do the threat(s) of fascism exist in light of the upcoming US presidential election? Our speaker, Greg Godels, grew up in a working-class family in a rural coal mining community. He joined the Communist Party in 1975 and served on the party’s Economics Commission until Vic Perlo's death. He wrote frequently for the Daily World and other party papers as well as Political Affairs and Nature, Society and Thought. Articles ...

US sanctions are not new and have been applied by the US in both recent history (Venezuela, Iran) and well prior (Japan 1937-45, Latin America, Africa). However, the scope & magnitude of US sanctions against Russia today represent a quantitative, as well as qualitative, higher stage and escalation of sanctions as a tool of US imperialism. The presentation will describe what's in the US six packages of sanctions announced to date, distinguish between financial sanctions from goods & trade sanctions and individuals' sanctions, and estimate their current stage of implementation of each. How US capitalists are enormously benefiting from the ...

Sunday Morning at the Marxist ForumSun., November 16, 2025: 10:30 am-12:30 pm PST US Wages War on Venezuela –Venezuela Resists Speaker: Jesús Rodriguez-Espinoza Join us for a live report from Caracas, Venezuela, on the escalating US regime-change war against the Bolivarian Revolution. Dropping any pretext of promoting democracy, the US empire – the world’s largest consumer of illegal narcotics and the leading money launder – is using the transparent pretext of counter-narcotics to root out the hemisphere’s leading anti-imperialist challenger to US hegemony. Venezuela is resisting and represents, in fact, the hope of an alternative to a US-dominated world order ...

William Camacaro will report on the latest US imperial aggression against Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. Hear about the resolute resistance on the ground in Venezuela, the unity of the political leadership, and the international solidarity movement. The US government and corporate press propaganda campaign to sow disunity and demoralization will be linked to the latest overt acts of war. This is on top of an illegal regime of unilateral coercive measures (“sanctions”), which has been escalated into an outright military blockade. William Camacaro is a Venezuelan-American based on New York City, where he has been organizing on the ground for the ...

Dan will be speaking about the recent attack on Venezuela, threats against Iran, Greenland, and the rest of the world, where the US seems to expand the old Monroe Doctrine and claim the whole world as its “backyard.”  Whether this quest could find any traction in reality is something to be seen. 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 ...