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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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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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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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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/
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