ICSS Past Presentations

https://youtu.be/CXneZA2HZhM After two years of Al-Aqsa Flood and the rise of the new Palestinian revolution, and two years into the horrific expanded genocide against the Palestinian people carried out by the Zionist entity and its imperialist sponsors and partners (the United States, Canada, Britain, European states), where is the Palestinian movement today? This session will debunk and counter imperialist and Zionist propaganda and psychological warfare tactics that aim to instill...

https://youtu.be/zFQE-hOBeuA For humanity, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution represents hope; for the US imperial project, which seeks to crush any alternative to its order, it is a threat. Washington projects its drug problem onto Venezuela and the rest of Latin America. US policy under Trump, which confounds terrorism with criminal activity, is a cover for projecting military domination. Claiming the prerogative to unilaterally intervene in the sovereign territories of neighboring states to...

https://youtu.be/6hesdKm03SA Huge parades in Ho Chi Minh City this spring marked the 50th anniversary of April 30, 1975, when a North Viet Namese army tank crashed through the iron gates of the U.S. Embassy in Sai Gon. The military took the lead in the parade, but it soon changed to beautiful peace floats, music, doves, flowers, and thousands of workers and children, along with colorful cultural costumes. Our speaker, Nadya Williams, observed the celebrations and traveled throughout the...

https://youtu.be/RrvgOH0pGfc Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, communists had always believed that the only way a socialist state could be destroyed was by hostile forces from the outside. Now we know that this was tragically wrong. The Soviet Union was destroyed by betrayal from within.  Uncovering the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union is the most important question confronting Marxists, socialists, and communists today. This is the subject of Prof. Furr's talk.   Bio: Our...

https://youtu.be/xtsoU580eKI After the defeat of the revolutionary Filipino independence movement in 1902, Filipinos became the largest colonial workforce in the United States. Immigrant Filipino agricultural workers enabled the transformation of U.S. agriculture from simple small-scale farming into the corporate behemoth we have today. Decades of intense class warfare between Filipino agricultural workers and U.S. agribusiness capitalists culminated in the historic 1965 Grape Strikes of...

https://youtu.be/ToyQcjgpLGI Appealing to an ugly nativist strain in the US, the current occupant in the White House has criminalized migrants. In contrast, this program will present a Marxist analysis of migration. Migrants are integral to destination societies such as the US – truly a nation of immigrants. Join us for an examination of migration from both the perspective of the origin countries and the destination states. Our speaker, Immanuel Ness, is the author of the acclaimed Migration...

https://youtu.be/zClqBGeHQ20 How to describe the character of Russian society during the Putin presidency brings forth strong opinions, including from Marxists. Karl Sanchez believes that one must distinguish 'State Capitalism and the type of Socialism being employed by Russia and China. Currently all political-economies are hybrids - no nation is purely one or another. However, it is clear that some political-economic formats are detrimental to the majority and merit being radically reformed....

https://youtu.be/G0RFONFeQM8 80 Years after the US Bombing of Hiroshima and NagasakiAre We on the Verge of Another Nuclear War? Speaker: Gerry Condon “Nuclear weapons are used every day.  They are like a gun you point at somebody’s head.”                                                                   – Daniel Ellsberg Eighty years ago, the US dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, the world is closer to nuclear war even than during the Cuban...

https://youtu.be/QfsIxxmUm0w Project Censored and award-winning investigative journalist Peter Byrne present his groundbreaking exposé on the dangerous militarization of artificial intelligence—and the profiteering that drives it. Byrne, known for his deep investigations into the intersection of science, industry, and government, uncovers how Silicon Valley, the Department of Defense, the banking sector, corporate media, and scientific institutions are collaborating to develop AI for military...

https://youtu.be/ksg0_CZS6LM Marcy will share the work of CODEPINK's Drop the ADL campaign, which involves passing resolutions at union meetings, testifying before local school boards and educating teachers and parents about the Israel lobby group. She will also discuss rank and file Drop the ADL organizing at the NEA, the largest teachers union and the largest union in the country. Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK'S Drop the ADL campaign, co-produces CODEPINK Radio and organizes with...