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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 bipolar world and ushered in a brief period of U.S. dominance. But over the past three decades—especially in ...

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 People’s Republic of China. Mary published her photography collection from this Movement in 2020, to document the anti-imperialist issues that politicized our ...

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 2014.  Mexico is now drawing US attention, and there are examples of foreign promoted violence in spite of the overwhelming popularity of the Morena leaders.  Our ...

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 Company for alleged human and labor rights violations.  He also taught International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of law for 12 years.  Dan has written ...

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 counter-narcotics to root out the hemisphere’s leading anti-imperialist challenger to US hegemony. Venezuela is resisting and represents, in fact, the hope of an alternative to a US-dominated world order ...

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 Group," with representatives from the US, France, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Spain, EU and OAS, is de facto governing Haiti at present. Pierre Labossiere is Co-Founder of the Haiti Action Committee ...

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 Sahai. A Discussion with those present in the session will follow. Raj Sahai has been a member of ICSS since 2007. An engineer by education and practice, he has participated ...

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 understand the conditions required of the class struggle’s participants.  You can find his writings on his Substack: https://substack.com/@rainershea ...

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 indications the insurrectionary disarray has long-been in the making, and assisted by spectral, foreign forces. British anti-imperialist journalist Kit Klarenberg writes for The Grayzone and Mint Press News, and is also ...

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 international gathering, trade agreement and aid shipment confirms that China is a lifeline for the Global South. With the development of a multipolar world, US hegemony is being challenged. Russia is a ...

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 defeatism, fear and silence at a time when "Israel" has been exposed before the world. We will realistically and materially assess: the ongoing attacks on Lebanon, Yemen and Iran, alongside Palestine, ...

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 fight cartels or murdering a boat’s crew in the Caribbean are not solutions. Latin American leaders are turning the spotlight back on Washington. They point to US gun policies, consumer demand, and ...

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 country. She says, “Although Viet Nam is looking to the future, the past is always present …. During the so-called “Indochina War,” Viet ...

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 speaker today is researcher, historian, and author, Prof. Grover Furr of Montclair State University in New Jersey. He teaches Medieval English Literature and has a ...

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 Coachella and Delano. Mary Jane Galviso, a member of the Filipino Farmers Cooperative in the California Central Valley, was born and raised in the California Imperial Valley. She will talk about her life as a young worker ...

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 as Economic Imperialism: How International Labor Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries (Polity 2023), which focuses on Western financial imperialism and the oppression ...