ICSS Past Presentations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWTFanLiIeo Imperialism has decided to attack Iran recently, in its quest to dominate every inch of the globe, especially if that area is rich in oil.  Iran has a history of independence and fighting off foreign forces that challenge its sovereignty.  However, the war is not only directed against the people of Iran but also against its neighbors, as one by one they are pulled into this assault led by US and Israel.  Türkiye can no longer pretend to sit on the...

https://youtu.be/epbS7yS7eTc   Income inequality has been escalating in this country since around 1980 and continues to get worse. Manufacturing jobs have been disappearing since the late 1970s, and the jobs that have "replaced" them have been substandard. The US labor union movement has done nothing to counter this, and as a result, the percentage of the unionized workforce is below 10%. Our national debt is over $39 TRILLION. Our "leaders" have no solutions for working people, whether...

https://youtu.be/uHq4LsGbwBI The US and Israel attacked, deceiving Iran, on 28 February 2026, while Iran was in negotiations with the US. The attack targeted and killed the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, most of his close family members and 40 other high government and military leaders in the official residence of the Leader in Tehran. In a separate attack, US missiles killed a minimum of more than 165 very young girls attending school in Southern Iran. From the mass media and bourgeois...

https://youtu.be/kDPXeJtmOK8 Khristian Rakovsky, born in Bulgaria, 1873, was a physician, a political activist. He was a Trotsky ally from early on, who helped found Nashe Slovo, a journal edited by Menshevik leader, Julius Martov. He served as a diplomat during the Russian Civil War. He was chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars from 1919 to 1923. From 1923 he was with the Left Opposition. In 1929 Khristian Rakovsky was exiled for his participation in Trotsky’s faction. In 1934...

https://youtu.be/gKlHrv8FCJ0 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...

https://youtu.be/uwDGMozK9Zo 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...

https://youtu.be/Hj2Hjq0x3FU Based on personal experiences during his two to three weeks stay in China with his partner and child, the speaker will put forward observations, stories and interesting encounters. The speaker will try to highlight contradictions in Chinese society, capital and state, and would focus upon the present state of the Chinese economy, education, health and other parameters. The talk will also dwell upon how to characterize China. Should China be characterized as...

https://youtu.be/aOeko15poEM 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...

https://youtu.be/3vkaCXcv4e4 Immigration has exposed a chasm between the left and the broader working class. Many Marxists defend "open borders", while the ‘progressive’ spectrum opposes all expulsions of the undocumented on moral grounds. There is little daylight between the positions of the Democratic Party, mainstream media, globalist-funded NGOs, and leftists. They often portray immigration restrictions as white supremacist and xenophobic, rather than attempts to limit capital’s excesses....

https://youtu.be/JvG-an9ABYg 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...