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 […]
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 […]
US Out of Korea! 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 […]
