Sun, Apr 21, 2024: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific The Rwandan Genocide. SPEAKER: Ann Garrison Ann Garrison has agreed to present in late April. She will speak on the Rwandan Genocide. The is the thirtieth year anniversary. Title and blurb to follow.
Sun, Apr 28 2024: 10:30am-12:30pm Pacific Korea: The current situation Dae-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.
Freeing Labor from its Chains: Indenture, Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery in America Speaker: Peter Fay American 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 […]
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
Sun., May 19, 2024: 10:30 am-12:30 pm PDT Resisting the Purging of pro-Palestinian Faculty Speaker: Danny Shaw Our speaker, Danny Shaw, is among the many voices for Palestine who have been punished for speaking out against genocide. After 18 years of teaching in the Latin American and Latinx Studies Department at John Jay College of […]
Sun June 2nd, 2024 Artificial Intelligence, Cure or Curse? On the class structure of AI and the reasons that a productive force appear as a destructive force of capitalism. Özgür Narin Artificial Intelligence, Cure or Curse? On the class structure of AI and the reasons that a productive force appear as a destructive force of […]
'Gouzenko Hoax of 1945 that started the Cold War, tying it to the current anti-Communist psyop propaganda blitzkrieg. '
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 […]
Bahman Azad has agreed to speak on June 30th. Title + Blurb + Bio to follow.
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 their marginalization from public life, where we might expect opposition to come from and what anti-imperialist activists can do to resist US interference.
Why We Need American Marxism For 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 […]
