ICSS Past Presentations

https://youtu.be/cJA7QMOqzlM As we look back over the past year, it is hard to avoid the sense that we are living on the edge of world-changing events. We have entered a historic turning point in the global balance of forces. Such shifts often unfold slowly, until a sudden break makes the change unmistakable. Today, the world’s geopolitical alignment is tipping away from the old order and toward a new one. This transformation began after 1991, when the collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the...

https://youtu.be/_8MiBhW7wy0 As a UCLA art major and activist working to establish the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Mary Uyematsu, set out to document the Asian American Movement happening in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. This Movement found its roots in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and was sparked by the struggles for ethnic studies and the protests against the Vietnam War, and the recognition of the...

https://youtu.be/EfHRLAFlFPA   Mexico is the US' largest trading partner and has over three times the population of Canada. Strangely, there has been little news in the US about the immense changes taking place in Mexico. The transformation began in 2018 under President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and continues under President Claudia Sheinbaum. Both leaders represent the MORENA Party, which now holds a majority in the Mexican Congress and Senate despite having only been created in...

https://youtu.be/VwPJRK1xHVY Sun., November 23, 2025, 10:30 am-12:00 pm PST The history and current aggression of the US against Colombia and Venezuela Speaker: Dan Kovalik Dan will be speaking about the history and current aggression of the US against Colombia and Venezuela. Daniel Kovalik served as in-house counsel at the USW for 26 years at its headquarters in Pittsburgh.  While with the USW, he served as counsel for Colombian Plaintiffs against US Corporations, including the Coca-Cola...

https://youtu.be/usKqIeWSkqM Sunday Morning at the Marxist ForumSun., November 16, 2025: 10:30 am-12:30 pm PST US Wages War on Venezuela –Venezuela Resists Speaker: Jesús Rodriguez-Espinoza Join us for a live report from Caracas, Venezuela, on the escalating US regime-change war against the Bolivarian Revolution. Dropping any pretext of promoting democracy, the US empire – the world’s largest consumer of illegal narcotics and the leading money launder – is using the transparent pretext of...

https://youtu.be/Tod-1F8DWh8   Haiti Today Through an Anti-imperialist Lens --  Pierre Labossiere, with an introduction by Marilyn Langlois Our guest, Pierre Labossiere, will provide an update on the current situation in Haiti. He will explain who the players are and debunk media narratives about the nature of so-called “gangs” in Haiti that have been covertly supported by imperialist and outside forces tied to the "Core Group" and their Haitian collaborators. The self-appointed "Core...

https://youtu.be/nZ6nkM9C5QY In his book in Italian language, published in 2013, its English translation published in May 2025, Titled: Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History; Italian Marxist Philosopher Dominico Losurdo argued that Class Struggle is much more than Workers against Capitalists, it encompasses National, Petit Bourgeois and Gender Struggles. Failure to grasp this, leads one to a version of Populism. Main points of his arguments will be summarized by presenter Raj...

https://youtu.be/nitggCEusuA We need to analyze how the workers' struggle for socialism has changed from that of the past century.  In this session, we will go over the role of BRICS in the class struggle, why the U.S.-led bloc is the sole manifestation of imperialism today, and how to escape the patterns of stagnation that have long plagued much of the communist movement. Rainer Shea is a California, Humboldt County-based writer and activist who seeks to advance the class struggle and...

https://youtu.be/ZUZ_6p5hNOI Over recent weeks, chaos has engulfed Nepal. Public and private buildings have been set ablaze, with dozens of civilians reportedly killed. On September 9th, Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli resigned. The Western media has universally framed the upheaval as spontaneous revolutionary fervor on the part of Kathmandu’s “Gen Z”, motivated by anger over official corruption, unemployment, state efforts to censor social media, and more. However, there are unambiguous...

https://youtu.be/VeEHwKQda9o China’s emergence as an economic powerhouse is a game-changer on a world scale today, with its Belt and Road Initiative, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BRICS+ trade alliance and numerous bilateral trade agreements. China is the top trading partner of over 120 countries and has become an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and their brutal structural adjustment, deregulation and privatization programs (SAPs). Every...