ICSS Past Presentations

https://youtu.be/Cec9Mj-pBQ4 Professor Rasmus will connect the dots between the Trump-Zelensky minerals deal, why the US wants out of Ukraine war and NATO, why DOGE proposes $2T cuts in foreign aid & domestic US spending. Reason: US empire’s maintenance cost is no longer affordable as currently structured and US elites are in process of restructuring it to reduce the cost and to prepare for future competition with BRICS and confrontation with China. Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy,...

https://youtu.be/IK1TBEywdaA Sun., March 2, 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm PSTLatin America Resists Trump – Deportations, Drugs, and Economic WarfareSpeaker: John Perry   The 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...

https://youtu.be/0y4Y5aeLjMk Sun., February 23, 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm Pacific TimeUkraine War End Game?Speaker: Allan Miller and Slava Jalili   Events are unfolding rapidly as we approach November 24th, the third anniversary of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Our speakers, Allan Miller and Slava Jalili, will provide important background information on the war, and an analysis of these current events. Allan Miller is a member of the ICSS Program Committee. Slava Jalili...

https://youtu.be/6SvMZtytS2w Sun., February 16, 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm PSTSyria Report-backSpeaker: Dan Kovalik Our 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...

https://youtu.be/DE7ZRz43Lt0 The 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...

https://youtu.be/s57CrwTwDbA Forecasts are favorable for Venezuela’s quarter-century-old Bolivarian Revolution. Initiated by Hugo Chávez and seamlessly carried forward by Nicolás Maduro, it is threatened by an increasingly aggressive Yankee hegemon. Venezuela’s regional role will be pivotal with key left-leaning presidents in Brazil and Colombia up for reelection in the next two years. Our speaker, Roger D. Harris, accompanied the January 10 presidential election in Venezuela and the...

https://youtu.be/0elWSwDsRoI The 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...

https://youtu.be/KM0lrWD4KIE Sunday Morning at the Marxist ForumSun., January 19, 2025: 10:30 am-12:30 pm PSTCompatible Left in Service of ImperialismSpeaker: Stansfield Smith The CIA helped to build and subsidize a “compatible left” in the 1940-1960s to help counter the Communist bloc and associated organizations. This anti-communist compatible left still exists today, giving backhanded defense of US imperialism’s endless wars. They harshly criticize the same nations the US seeks to overthrow...

https://youtu.be/j-J8K3bcMA0 The 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.  While Turkey is trying to grapple with rising workers, women, and people's resistance to its traditional fascism and unprecedented corruption, an unyielding...

https://youtu.be/1oTgRJ_2Vr0 Modern war is a product of imperialism and cannot be eliminated without destroying imperialism. The most important thing is the policy that the parties that led to that war were pursuing and will pursue after the end of the war. We are not opposed to all wars. There are just and unjust wars. We support just wars like the war against imperialism by the oppressed nations, the wars of the bourgeoisie against feudalism, the wars of the proletariat against the...