Author: icsswpadmin

The midterm congressional elections will soon be upon us. We will again be told, as we are every two years, that the most important election of our lifetimes is impending.

Meanwhile the super-rich take recreational flights into outer space, and neoliberalism – the contemporary form of capitalism – is not meeting working people’s needs.

Was Biden’s primetime lecture from Liberty Hall on September 1 a democracy speech or a demonization speech against half of our fellow citizens?

Was it a needed prop to “our democracy” or another slide down the path of a heightened security state lurching in the direction of fascism?

How does the circus of the two-party system function to serve class interests?

Roger Harris, who is on the program committee for the ICSS and the state central committee of the Peace and Freedom Party, will kick off the discussion, based on his recent Counterpunch article: https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/02/the-politics-of-anti-trumpism/

Other panelists and participants will be invited to join in a robust discussion of political response to the failures of neoliberalism and dangers ahead.

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.