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SUMMARY:Nicaragua the Center for Development in Central America - Sarah Junkin Woodard
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Junkin Woodard comes to us from Nicaragua\, representing the work of the Jubilee House Community\, a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit she helped form in 1979.  Working with and on behalf of the poor in North Carolina for the first decade\, the last 30 years have been spent in Nicaragua\, with the project name of the Center for Development in Central America.  The JHC-CDCA continues to respond to local needs\, seeking resources to help the poor accomplish what they see as their priorities\, particularly in the areas of sustainable economic development\, organic agriculture\, health care\, and education. The JHC-CDCA is supported by grassroots donations\, making it uniquely flexible in responding to climate crises\, able to adjust service ministries as needs change.  This Spring\, Sarah’s focus is to update supporters on the JHC-CDCA’s work in Nicaragua as well to educate those in the global north on the amazing realities developing within a southern neighbor where both the social and political will are focused on helping the majority of the population\, the poorest of the poor.  Sarah travels with a powerpoint presentation providing Q&A opportunities.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/nicaragua-the-center-for-development-in-central-america/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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SUMMARY:Latin America Resists Trump – Deportations\, Drugs\, and Economic Warfare - John Perry
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, March 2\, 2025: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific Time \n  \nLatin America Resists Trump – Deportations\, Drugs\, and Economic Warfare \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: John Perry \n  \n\n\n\nThe main difference between Donald Trump and his predecessors is that the current CEO of the empire better exposes naked imperialism. With an ever more aggressive and virulent projection of hegemony\, the Yankees view problems such as migration and drug trafficking as simply coming from the south\, ignoring some of the underlying made-in-the-USA causes. \nTo reverse that narrative\, our speaker will provide a view from the south and how resistance is building in Latin America and the Caribbean.  Nicaragua-based John Perry is a naturalized citizen and a supporter of the Sandinista Revolution. He is a journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books\, Grayzone\, FAIR\, and many other publications. \nFor background\, see: \n\nMigration\, Drugs\, and Tariffs: Whether Biden or Trump\, US’s Latin American Policy Will Still Be Contemptible. https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/03/migration-drugs-and-tariffs-whether-biden-or-trump-uss-latin-american-policy-will-still-be-contemptible/\nCAFTA treaty and Prospect of New US Sanctions Against Nicaragua. https://www.nicasolidarity.com/10222024-nica-breaks-relations-israel-statement-to-europe-conference/the-cafta-treaty-and-the-prospect-of-new-us-sanctions-against-nicaragua?rq=cafta\nPanama Tries Compromise; US Says It’s Not Enough. https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/03/panama-tries-compromise-us-says-its-not-enough/\nDevelopment banker says US knew of plot to oust him over Nicaragua loans. https://thegrayzone.com/2025/01/22/development-banker-us-plot-nicaragua-loans/\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/dan-kovalik-syria-roger-is-coordinating/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250223T080000
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SUMMARY:ALLAN: UKRAINE
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URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/raj-south-east-asia/
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SUMMARY:Report-back from Syria - Dan Kovalik Moderated by: Roger Harris
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, February 16\, 2025: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific Time \n  \nReport-back from Syria \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nSpeaker: Dan Kovalik \n  \n\n\n\nOur speaker\, international human rights advocate and lawyer Dan Kovalik just returned from Syria\, once a beautiful country and the cradle of civilization. He visited so that we could speak out for people there who can’t speak out because they fear violent repression. Dan will report back on the current situation in light of historical developments. The new de facto government was in large part brought to power by the US and other foreign entities and does not have a mandate or right to rule. Multiculturalism has been destroyed by the new government\, putting many minorities at risk. \nDan Kovalik has written extensively on international human rights and US foreign policy. He has lectured throughout the world on these subjects and frequently appears on RT. He is the author of books exposing the machinations of US imperialism in Nicaragua\, Venezuela\, Iran\, and Russia\, and most recently Palestine/Israel. Other books include a progressive case against cancel culture and how the US violates international law. He teaches international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.  He graduated from Columbia University School of Law. He then served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers\, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019. \n\nSee this video made on his return to the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2L-R3yXI0\nHere is an earlier interview: https://www.mintpressnews.com/dan-kovalik-on-elections-rebuilding-and-the-ongoing-proxy-war-in-syria/277524/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\nAlso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZBgjZLW8lI
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/basudev-raj-is-coordinating-will-provide-blurb/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250209T103000
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SUMMARY:Palestine Now: Gaza Ceasefire\, Prisoner Exchanges and Regional and Global Developments
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, February 9\, 2025: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific Time \nPalestine Now: Gaza Ceasefire\, Prisoner Exchanges and Regional and Global Developments \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Charlotte Kates \n\n\n\nThe ceasefire in Gaza after 15 months of the genocidal Israeli war upon the Palestinian people\, backed\, armed and funded by the major imperialist powers — particularly the United States — has revealed many truths\, including the failure of the Israeli regime to achieve its goals and the persistence\, steadfastness and strength of the Palestinian resistance. The resistance in Palestine is currently presiding over a prisoner exchange process that is also liberating a significant number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails\, while Israel is escalating its attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. As half a million Palestinians in Gaza returned to their homes in the north\, US President Donald Trump declared that he is seeking to dispossess Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt. \nThis session will discuss the Palestinian\, Arab and regional\, and international contexts of the current situation of the Palestinian people\, their resistance and their national liberation struggle\, including developments in Lebanon\, Yemen\, Iraq and Iran\, the fall of the Syrian government and the Israeli invasion and occupation of Syria\, and the developing contradictions among the imperialist forces. \nCharlotte Kates co-founded Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. She is a longtime activist and organizer for Palestinian liberation\, and works with a number of organizations to advance justice and liberation for Palestine in an anti-imperialist framework.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/charlotte-on-ceasefire/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250202T103000
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SUMMARY:Maduro Assumes a Third Term – Prospects and Problematics for Venezuela - Roger D. Harris
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Mehmet Bayram\n\nSunday – February 2\, 2025 – 10:30 am-12:30 pm PST\nMaduro Assumes a Third Term – Prospects and Problematics for\nVenezuela\nSpeaker: Roger D. Harris\nForecasts are favorable for Venezuela’s quarter-century-old Bolivarian Revolution.\nInitiated by Hugo Chávez and seamlessly carried forward by Nicolás Maduro\, it is\nthreatened by an increasingly aggressive Yankee hegemon. Venezuela’s regional role will\nbe pivotal with key left-leaning presidents in Brazil and Colombia up for reelection in\nthe next two years.\nOur speaker\, Roger D. Harris\, accompanied the January 10 presidential election in\nVenezuela and the concurrent antifascist conference. He will report back on what\nhappened there as well as on Washington’s campaign to delegitimize the country’s\nBolivarian Revolution with the ultimate aim of regime change.\nRoger is on the executive committee of the US Peace Council. He is active with the anti-\nimperialist human rights group Task Force on the Americas\, the SanctionsKill \nCampaign against unilateral coercive measures\, is a founding member of the Venezuela\n\n\nSolidarity Network\, and is on the secretariat of the US Peace Council. He is also on the \nICSS program committee.\nSome of the recent articles by or co-authored by Roger on Venezuela and Latin America:\n Maduro Assumes a Third Term: Prospects and Problematics for Venezuela \nhttps://orinocotribune.com/venezuelan-president-maduro-assumes-a-third-\nterm-prospects-and-problematics/\n Whether Biden or Trump\, US’s Latin American Policy Will Still Be Contemptible \nhttps://www.pressenza.com/2025/01/whether-biden-or-trump-uss-latin-\namerican-policy-will-still-be-contemptible-migration-drugs-and-tariffs/\n US Media Promotes Military Intervention in Venezuela \nhttps://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/28/us-media-promotes-military-\nintervention-in-venezuela/\n US-backed Venezuelan Opposition Never Tried to Win the Presidency \nhttps://dissidentvoice.org/2024/11/us-backed-venezuelan-opposition-never-\ntried-to-win-the-presidency/\n What Venezuelans Think about their Presidential Election \nhttps://popularresistance.org/what-venezuelans-think-about-their-presidential-\nelection/\n How the US Could Have Won the Venezuelan Election \nhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/26/how-the-us-could-have-won-the-\nvenezuelan-election/
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/roger/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250201T080000
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SUMMARY:Report-back from Syria - Dan Kovalik
DESCRIPTION:Sun.\, March 2\, 2025\, 10:30 am-12:30 pm PST \nSyria Report-back \nSpeaker: Dan Kovalik \nOur speaker\, international human rights advocate and lawyer Dan Kovalik just returned from Syria\, once a beautiful country and the cradle of civilization. He visited so that we could speak out for people there who can’t speak out because they fear violent repression. Dan will report back on the current situation in light of historical developments. The new de facto government was in large part brought to power by the US and other foreign entities and does not have a mandate or right to rule. Multiculturalism has been destroyed by the new government\, putting many minorities at risk. \n  \nDan Kovalik has written extensively on international human rights and US foreign policy. He has lectured throughout the world on these subjects and frequently appears on RT. He is the author of books exposing the machinations of US imperialism in Nicaragua\, Venezuela\, Iran\, and Russia\, and most recently Palestine/Israel. Other books include a progressive case against cancel culture and how the US violates international law. He teaches international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He graduated from Columbia University School of Law. He then served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers\, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019. \n  \nSee this video made on his return to the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2L-R3yXI0\nHere is an earlier interview: https://www.mintpressnews.com/dan-kovalik-on-elections-rebuilding-and-the-ongoing-proxy-war-in-syria/277524/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\nAlso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZBgjZLW8lI \n  \n 
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/report-back-from-syria-dan-kovalik/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250126T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250126T123000
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SUMMARY:Laura Wells
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, Jan 26\, 2025: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific Time\nEstablishing a Successful Anti-Imperialist Political Party in the U.S.\n \nSpeaker: Butch Ware\, with Laura Wells\n\nThe U.S. has for decades had a strongly enforced two-party system. While there are differences\, they both support US imperialist domination of the world — militarily and economically — and have earned their description as “two parties of War and Wall Street.” This presentation will focus on the opportunities and hurdles of creating an anti-imperialist political party that can serve as the electoral arm of the movement. Butch Ware sees five areas which need to be addressed and developed with the goal of winning power to change the United States’ direction: vertical integration\, culture\, fundraising\, team-building and demographics. \n\nBIO:\n\n\n\n\n\nButch Ware ran as the Green Party candidate for Vice President alongside Jill Stein in 2024. Butch earned his BA at the University of Minnesota and his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an associate professor at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has also taught at Northwestern University\, and the University of Michigan. His scholarship focuses on anti-imperialist resistance movements in Africa\, the Diaspora\, and the Islamic World\, as well as the broader intersection of spirituality\, social justice\, and revolutionary thought. He plans to run for California Governor in 2026.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Wells has been active with the Green Party of California since the party began in 1992. She has run as a candidate for public office\, primarily state Controller\, and for Governor in 2010\, with the platform of public banking and “tax the rich.”
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/laura-wells/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250119T103000
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SUMMARY:Syria: Stan Smith CONFIRMED.
DESCRIPTION:ROGER will provide blurb and bio \nUpdate will come soon: Dec 18th\, 2024 \n  \n\nhttps://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/compatible-left-joins-imperialism-in-celebrating-defeat-of-syria/ \nCompatible Left Joins Imperialism in Celebrating Defeat of Syria \n\nThe Function of the Compatible Left Seen in Its Attacks on the Venezuelan Revolution \nhttps://chicagoalbasolidarity.org/2024/11/20/the-function-of-the-compatible-left-seen-in-its-attacks-on-the-venezuelan-revolution/ \n\nhttps://chicagoalbasolidarity.org/2022/11/28/behind-the-decline-of-the-us-left/ \nPart 2: Behind the Decline of the US Left \n\nhttps://chicagoalbasolidarity.org/2022/06/23/national-security-state-censoring-of-anti-imperialist-voices-the-latest-phase-of-their-long-term-strategy-to-divide-and-control-the-left/ \nPart 1: National Security State Censoring of Anti-Imperialist Voices the Latest Phase of their Long-Term Strategy to Divide and Control the Left
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/syria-stan-smith-temporary/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250113T080000
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SUMMARY:Ukraine Allan CONFIRMED
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URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/ukraine-allan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250112T103000
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SUMMARY:Internal Disintegration Prevents Türkiye’s Regional Aspirations - Mehmet Bayram
DESCRIPTION:Internal Disintegration Prevents Türkiye’s Regional Aspirations\n\n\nThe Middle East is in another turmoil as borders\, governments\, and alliances change daily\, sometimes even in hours.  Unable to solve its crisis\, imperialism attacks all previously drawn borders\, gobbling up even the most benign or harmless enclaves\, marching to its targets: Iran\, Russia\, and ultimately\, China. \nWhile Turkey is trying to grapple with rising workers\, women\, and people’s resistance to its traditional fascism and unprecedented corruption\, an unyielding Kurdish challenge creates insurmountable cracks in its structure.  Changing policy and tactics daily\, contradicting the position it held only a few hours ago\, flip-flopping continuously\, Turkey is trying to navigate uncharted waters in Syria and thus fails miserably as its fascist state with corruption and subservience to imperialism\, finds the only way forward is with more blood\, torture\, war\, and fascist aggression by curbing whatever fake freedom crumbs it may have had internally. \nMehmet Bayram is a member of the ICSS program committee and is a journalist\, author\, and translator\, and is currently working on a book project to document the memoirs of the leftists who lived through the open fascist September 12\, 1980\, military coup in Turkiye.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/turkey-syria-kurds-part-ii-mehmet-bayram/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250105T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250105T123000
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SUMMARY:Imperialism And War — Harpal Brar
DESCRIPTION:Harpal Brar was a founding member of Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist-Leninist\, known by its acronym: CPGB-ML. CPGB-ML was formed in 2004\, after some of its members split from Socialist Labor Party\, which itself was a party that split from the Labor Party (UK). The CPGB-ML opposes Trotskyism\, social democracy\, democratic socialism and all forms of revisionism. In 1995\, Harpal Brar published a book titled Social Democracy: ‘The Enemy Within’. \nCPGB-ML opposes opportunism in the working-class movement and works for the establishment of socialism in Britain. At the eighth congress of the CPGB-ML in September 2018\, Brar announced that he would step down as chairman of the party\, to be replaced by Ella Rule. \nHe has written a number of books and articles: \n\nSocialism with Chinese Characteristics (2020) – Latest\nPerestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism (1992)\nRevisionism and the Demise of the USSR\nTrotskyism or Leninism? (1993)\nSocial Democracy: The Enemy Within (1995)\nNATO’s Predatory War Against Yugoslavia\nImperialism and War\nImperialism – the Eve of the Social Revolution of the Proletariat\nChimurenga! The Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe\n Imperialism – Decadent\, Parasitic\, Moribund Capitalism\nBourgeois Nationalism or Proletarian Internationalism?\nThe 1926 British General Strike\nInquilab Zindabad\, India’s Liberation Struggle (2014)
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/harpal-will-speak-blurb-abd-bio-from-raj/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241222T103000
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SUMMARY:U.S. and Israel are Pushing the World to the Brink of World War III  Speaker: Bahman Azad
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nThe ever-increasing U.S.-Israel military attacks on the regional resistance movement is based on the awareness of the fact that the defeat of Zionist Israel fundamentally threatens U.S. hegemony in the region and\, through it\, a shift in the global balance of forces against the empire itself. \nOur speaker\, Bahman Azad\, is a retired professor of economics and sociology. His area of research includes the political economy of capitalism and socialism. He is the author of the book: Heroic Struggle\, Bitter Defeat: Factors Contributing to the Dismantling of the Socialist State in the USSR. Bahman is currently the president of the U.S. Peace Council\, a member of the secretariat of the World Peace Council\, and representative of the World Peace Council at the United Nations. He is also a member of the administrative committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC). \n  \nBahman Azad is affiliated with the anti-imperialist\, Iranian “10 Mehr” Group. He was co-chair of Venezuelan Embassy Protectors Defense Committee and is currently serving as the coordinator of the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases and co-coordinator of the Hands-Off Syria Coalition. \n 
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/u-s-and-israel-are-pushing-the-world-to-the-brink-of-world-war-iii-speaker-bahman-azad/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Presentation
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SUMMARY:US Out of Korea!
DESCRIPTION:US Out of Korea!\n\nUS 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.\n\nJoin us to hear an anti-imperialist overview of the current situation on the Korean peninsula and to learn more about the US Out of Korea campaign presented by Paul Liem of the Korea Policy Institute and US Out of Korea Campaign.\n\nBIO\n\nPaul Liem has been active on Korea issues for four decades and has visited North Korea in three different decades.  He is a Director of the Korea Policy Institute and an activist in the US Out of Korea Campaign.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/us-out-of-korea/
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SUMMARY:Western Marxism: How it was Born\, How it Died\, How it can be Reborn - Gabriel Rockhill - Sept 8 2024 10:30 AM Pacific Time
DESCRIPTION:Western Marxism: How It Was Born\, How It Died\, How It Can Be Reborn is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia. It reveals how its dominant ideological orientation—characterized by defeatism\, utopianism\, and anti-communism—is rooted in the political economy of imperialism. Internationally acclaimed theorist Domenico Losurdo thus provides a fresh and challenging perspective on purportedly radical thinkers who have been widely promoted in the imperial core \nGabriel Rockhill is a philosopher and activist who has published nine books. He is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/western-marxism-how-it-was-born-how-it-died-how-it-can-be-reborn-gabriel-rockhill-sept-8-2024-1030-am-pacific-time-copy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240811T103000
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SUMMARY:Why We Need American Marxism - Carlos Garrido - August 11 2024 -(CONFIRMED)
DESCRIPTION:Why We Need American Marxism \nFor decades American politicians\, the representatives of the country’s oligarchs\, have lied to the American people about their country’s relation to socialism. America has been presented as fundamentally antithetical to socialism\, Marxism\, and communism. Garrido shows how we have\, starting in the early parts of the 19th century\, a homegrown tradition of socialist thought that grounds itself in the most progressive components of American history. This is a tradition which holds that the values 1776 can only be capable of being fully realized in a socialist society. Why We Need American Marxism develops\, within the Marxist framework\, upon this tradition of homegrown socialism and argues that only by developing American Marxism\, and organizations of working people based on it\, can we overcome the crisis we are in and establish a society that is genuinely of\, by\, and for the people. \nCarlos L. Garrido is a Cuban American philosophy instructor at Southern Illinois University\, Carbondale. He is the director of the Midwestern Marx Institute and the author of The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism (2023)\, Marxism and the Dialectical Materialist Worldview (2022)\, and the forthcoming Hegel\, Marxism\, and Dialectics (2024). He has written for dozens of scholarly and popular publications around the world and runs various live-broadcast shows for the Midwestern Marx Institute YouTube. Carlos runs the Philosophy in Crisis Substack.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/why-we-need-american-marxism-carlos-garrido-august-11-2024-confirmed/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240714T103000
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SUMMARY:Mexico Elections - Jose Luis Granados Ceja
DESCRIPTION: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 root of the country’s opposition and their marginalization from public life\, where we might expect opposition to come from and what anti-imperialist activists can do to resist US interference. \nBio: José Luis Granados Ceja is an anti-imperialist journalist and political analyst based in Mexico City\, with 20 years of experience covering social movements\, democracy\, elections\, and human rights. He is a staff writer with Venezuelanalysis\, covering regional and international issues\, and is the host of their podcast. He also serves as editor of the Mexico Solidarity Media website and writes a monthly opinion column for the Mexico Solidarity Project Bulletin. Together with Kurt Hackbarth\, he co-hosts the Soberanía podcast\, which provides English-language analysis of politics in Mexico.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/mexico-elections-jose-luis-granados-ceja/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240630T103000
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SUMMARY:Iran\, Imperialism\, and Multipolarity (CONFIRMED)
DESCRIPTION:Bahman Azad has agreed to speak on June 30th.  Title + Blurb + Bio to follow.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/iran-imperialism-and-multipolarity/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240616T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240616T123000
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SUMMARY:India's Election Results and its Domestic and Foreign Impact
DESCRIPTION:India’s Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) Elections held every 5 years will be completed by the end of May 2924. BJP: 290 seats and along with regional parties\, an alliance called NDA had 303 seats in the outgoing 543-member parliament. Its nationwide rival is the old Congress Party\, with 48 seats. The rest were shared among regional parties\, which have come together this time as a alliance called I.N.D.I.A. \nModerator: Raj \nBackground: Allan
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/confirmed-indias-elections/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240609T103000
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SUMMARY:Gouzenko Hoax of 1945 that started the Cold War - Mathew Ehret
DESCRIPTION:‘Gouzenko Hoax of 1945 that started the Cold War\, tying it to the current anti-Communist psyop propaganda blitzkrieg. ‘
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/gouzenko-hoax-of-1945-that-started-the-cold-war-mathew-ehret/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240602T103000
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence\, Cure or Curse? - Özgür Narin
DESCRIPTION:Sun June 2nd\, 2024 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence\, Cure or Curse?\nOn the class structure of AI and the reasons that a productive force appear as a destructive force of capitalism.\nÖzgür Narin\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence\, Cure or Curse?  \nOn the class structure of AI and the reasons that a productive force appear as a destructive force of capitalism. \nÖzgür Narin \nMachine Learning Algorithms running on Artificial Neural Networks and particularly reinforcement learning were real breakthroughs of 2010s\, Generative AI and transformers are of 2020s\, all of them developed and spread to various branches. \nAnd nowadays they even talk about an “existential risk” created by AI as if capitalism itself was not the real existential risk for centuries. So we should talk about capitalist production process of AI and the class structure of it. \nHence\, I will first try to analyse the path from machine to machine-learning via Marx’s analysis of machine while considering the alienation as the dual and complementary part of it. Datafication of society is a consequence of this process. The data extractivism of capital transforms the datafication into profit seeking capitalist production as well as parameterisation of the society. So the data gathered in and for the sake of the capitalist production is the input of the capitalist cycle and at the same time actively intervening and manipulating both the labour process data and consumer behaviour data. The data was and is not “as given” in a capitalist production. It would be better to discuss this constant manipulation before “bias” and “ethical issues” in data gathering. AI and constantly produced and reproduced data sets transformed this problem into a new sphere. When we consider the machine learning algorithms using large dataset gathered through all cycles of capitalist social reproduction\, it would be better to consider the alienation of total social labour and this new level of “manipulation”. I will try to discuss this problem and suggest “parameterization of society” vis a vis “datafication of society” considering the distinction between the social form of data collection that is capitalist data extractivism and the objective content of data gathering which is in fact a possibility to organize the social production in a different classless society. The key factor is the subjective side\, that is the intersection of the producers of the AI architecture\, algorithms and the data. \nThe evolution from machinery to AI is actually a social process that is structured by class struggle. So I will try to trace the historical development of producing “learning machines” as a class struggle and point out both sides of the development\, i.e. capitalist side of AI research\, from cybernetics to AI and the Soviet side of it. And finally\, modern class struggle\, workers involved in the production of AI versus Tech-giants… \nLast but not the least\, considering the rather futuristic scenarios of AI\, I will discuss the limits of AGI and creating AI with ‘the ability to transfer learning from one domain to other domains’ namely “AI with the capacity to engage and behave intelligently in a wide variety of contexts”. \nÖzgür Narin is currently a union member and Assistant Professor of Economics at Ordu University. He graduated from the Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University. He studied the capitalist production of science and technology\, particularly innovation and the changing scientific labour process. His current research is on Artificial Intelligence\, “General Intellect” and the alternative reorganization of social production and society. His writing appeared on Monthly Review and Science & Society
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/possibly-ai-and-its-marxist-analysis/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240526T103000
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SUMMARY:Mark Albertson - Raj Sahai
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URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/mark-albertson-raj-sahai/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240519T103000
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SUMMARY:Resisting the Purging of pro-Palestinian Faculty - Danny Shaw
DESCRIPTION:Sun.\, May 19\, 2024: 10:30 am-12:30 pm PDT\nResisting the Purging of pro-Palestinian Faculty\nSpeaker: Danny Shaw\nOur speaker\, Danny Shaw\, is among the many voices for Palestine who have been\npunished for speaking out against genocide. After 18 years of teaching in the Latin\nAmerican and Latinx Studies Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice\, he\nwas fired last month for his social media posts educating and organizing against the\nIsraeli-U.S. genocide in Gaza. He has been camped out with the hundreds of students\,\nfaculty\, alumni and staff that make up the Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment.\nWe urge you to sign the petition in support of Danny Shaw\, who has spoken at the\nMarxist Library a number of times. The popular faculty was fired in retaliation for his\noutspoken public stand for Palestinian liberation. The petition can be found at:\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHtHV8F-TmazoQVzDCTE-\nOr2DcImwC_92qp8c2oVcOUBGm3w/viewform\nThe witch-hunt was led by the Zionist doxxing and blacklisting operation Canary\nMission. Despite receiving numerous death threats\, Danny continues to teach as a\nvolunteer at the Columbia University’s pro-Palestine encampment.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDanny Shaw holds a BA in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Colombia \nUniversity and a master’s in international affairs with a specialization in South\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerican and Caribbean Studies from Columbia’s School of International and Public\nAffairs.\nHe is affiliated with the Midwestern Marx Institute and frequently appears on TeleSUR\, \nRT\, and other progressive media. Danny is also a retired Golden Gloves boxer\, fighting \ntwice in Madison Square Garden for the NYC heavyweight championship. He is\nthe author of six books and numerous articles.\nSee:\nhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/17/bpdx-a17.html\nhttps://www.instagram.com/profdannyshaw/reel/C5Ref73uQRu/\nhttps://www.bitchute.com/video/59Z745FJNHw/\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/resisting-the-purging-of-pro-palestinian-faculty-danny-shaw/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240512T103000
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SUMMARY:Campus Encampments and protests against Genocide in Palestine - Mehmet Bayram
DESCRIPTION:Mehmet will contact the encampments in Berkeley and Stanford and prepare a lead in discussion on the events around the new emerging protest wave in the US and around the world. yes
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/jewish-voice-for-peace-sharon/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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SUMMARY:Freeing Labor from its Chains:  Indenture\, Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery in America  - Speaker: Peter Fay
DESCRIPTION:Freeing Labor from its Chains: \nIndenture\, Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery in America \nSpeaker: Peter Fay \n  \nAmerican labor is deindustrialized\, deunionized\, fragmented\, and pauperized. Its debased condition is a prisoner of its form: that of a commodity\, forever cheapening\, like any other. Bereft of political leadership\, labor instinctively reacts in populist protest at its own demise\, rejecting neoliberalism and the “new world order”. In response\, the ruling class shames it as “deplorable”\, “far-right”\, and “Putin’s puppets”. In a world devoid of class identity\, American culture proffers individual identity as the new religion\, as the new “sigh of the oppressed creature\, the heart of a heartless world”. Labor\, the unifying property of humanity\, is hidden in plain sight beneath the media’s vilification of all against all\, a society anatomized by gender and race. \n  \nOur speaker\, Peter Fay\, is a former officer of Steelworkers Local 2285\, and lifelong Communist and public historian\, emphasizes the commonalities and unities of labor\, rather than its disassociation\, across its many historical forms in American history. \n  \nMr. Fay uncovers capital’s driving imperative for the extraction of surplus value while abetting the bifurcation of labor by race. He shares exemplars gleaned from decades of labor research — Eastern Algonquian tribal wampum (‘money-beads’)\, bills of sale of the New England slave trade\, and ledger books of the first industrial sites in America. Capital first relied upon indigenous labor for the colonial economy\, then imported indentured labor from Europe\, later expanding into chattel slavery and free labor. Labor took variegated forms: colonial artisanal labor\, slavery\, formal subsumption of artisans and freeholders by merchants\, and finally free industrial proletarians. But in each form\, capital’s craving for expansion formed and reformed the labor commodity into the one most advantageous for its reproduction. The result was the most massive expansion of capital in human history\, with race as a prime facilitator in the extraction of surplus value. \n  \nMr. Fay concludes with his own experience in the struggles of Black and white steelworkers in the metal forging industry against industrial capital. He uses Marx’s Capital as the essential guide not only for understanding the labor process but for the potentiality and necessity of eliminating wage slavery itself. Only the elimination of labor as a commodity can unleash labor for what Marx called\, “not only a means of life but life’s prime want”. \n  \nBio: \nPeter Fay is a Marxist public historian\, and co-founder of the Newport Middle Passage Project. \nAs a 23-year-old machinist and open Communist\, he ran for the executive board of a 1\,100-member Steelworkers local in Worcester\, Massachusetts winning 2-to-1 despite company red-baiting. He uncovered company ownership of a titanium mine in apartheid South Africa and called for divestment. He also served as an organizer for UE and District 1199.  He advocated for bilinguall education in public schools and an NAACP school desegregation suit. \nAfter a job injury\, he became a software engineer and public historian\, researching New England slavery and early labor movements. Today Mr. Fay publishes histories of labor and Black history\, leads classes on Marxism\, and sits on the boards of several historical societies.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/sykes-picot-by-mark-albertson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240428T103000
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SUMMARY:Korea: The current situation   - Dae-Hon Song
DESCRIPTION:Sun\, Apr 28 2024: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific \n\nKorea: The current situation \nDae-Hon Song of  the International Strategy Center ( goisc.org/home )\, Korea Policy Institute and a journalist with Peoples Dispatch has tentatively agreed to speak on a topic related to Korea on April 28th.  Title\, topic\, bio\, and pic to follow shortly.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/korea-the-current-situation-dae-hon-song/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240421T103000
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SUMMARY:The Rwandan Genocide. - Ann Garrison
DESCRIPTION:Sun\, Apr 21\, 2024: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific \n\nThe Rwandan Genocide. \nSPEAKER: Ann Garrison \nAnn Garrison has agreed to present in late April.  She will speak on the Rwandan Genocide.  The is the thirtieth year anniversary. \nTitle and blurb to follow.
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/the-rwandan-genocide-ann-garrison/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240414T103000
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SUMMARY:Woke and war-crazed: Western liberal support of Ukraine  - Dan Kovalik 
DESCRIPTION:Sun\, Apr 14\, 2024: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific \n\nWoke and war-crazed: Western liberal support of Ukraine \nSpeaker: Dan Kovalik  \n\nOur speaker\, international human rights advocate and lawyer Dan Kovalik\, just returned from observing the March 17th presidential elections in Russia. He was in the Kherson Oblast\, which experienced terrorist attacks designed to disrupt the election. Dan will report back on the current Ukraine conflict in light of historical developments\, in particular the break-up of the Soviet Union\, the fight against fascism dating back to WWII\, and the missed opportunities for peaceful resolutions in that region; in short\, the continuing efforts of the US and its allies to weaken Russia. Dan will also report on his investigations of popular sentiment in Russia regarding Putin and the legacy of the Soviet Union. \nOur speaker\, Dan Kovalik\, has written extensively on international human rights and US foreign policy. He has lectured throughout the world on these subjects and frequently appears on RT. He is the author of books exposing the machinations of US imperialism in Nicaragua\, Venezuela\, Iran\, and Russia\, and an upcoming one on Palestine and Israel. Other books include a progressive case against cancel culture and how the US violates international law. He teaches international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.  He graduated from Columbia University School of Law. He then served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers\, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019. \n  \nIn this video\, Dan Kovalik is interviewed by George Galloway on the situation in the West Bank: https://twitter.com/moatstv/status/1734543611906363762?s=46 \n  \nIn this video\, Dan Kovalik addresses the UN Security Council on threats to international peace and security: https://media.un.org/en/asset/k12/k128iiykjr. \n  \nRussian Elections & Meddling with Dan Kovalik \nDonald Courter and Dan Kovalik discuss the recent elections in Russia. Dated March 22\, 2924 \nhttps://www.therevolutionreport.org/news-1/512ea5ec-47f2-4e11-97a6-2b0ef13869e5
URL:https://icssmarx.org/event/woke-and-war-crazed-western-liberal-support-of-ukraine-dan-kovalik/
LOCATION:Zoom (Online) Please see the specific Presentation page for connection information
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