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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 ...

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. Karl Sanchez is based on the US West Coast. He had a long career as a culinary worker before turning to academia. His popular Substack blog - Karlof1's Geopolitical Gymnasium ...

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 missile crisis, and the Pentagon is planning a nuclear first-strike against China. Some say the absence of another nuclear war in the last eighty years proves that nuclear “deterrence” is ...

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 use. Northern California-based journalist Peter Byrne combines investigative reporting with science writing. In 2017, Peter's 11-part series in the Point Reyes Light “Busted: Breast Cancer Money and the Media” won the top science writing award from the American Association ...

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 the California legislative team of Jewish Voice for Peace-Action. A member of CTA and UTLA Retired, Marcy blogs about militarism and US foreign policy at CounterPunch, Common Dreams, CODEPINK ...

Cyprus is located at the intersection of three continents, east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of Asia and north of Africa. It has been colonised by various occupiers throughout history and was described by imperialists as an ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’. Cyprus' modern history spans the past 200 years, from Ottoman rule to British domination and Turkish occupation. Following the decolonisation process after World War II, Cyprus joined the anti-colonial struggle and became a republic in 1960. From 1958 onwards, various paramilitary terrorist organisations emerged, orchestrated by NATO's Gladio. This paramilitary terrorism laid the groundwork for Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in ...

The AFL and then the AFL-CIO have had an imperialist foreign policy program where they have operated in other countries around the world for over 100 years, beginning in the late 1890s.  They have never given an honest report of these operations to their members that can be independently verified.  Activists and scholars have discovered they have supported military coups that overthrew democratically elected governments, supported dictators, and right-wing labor movements operating against progressive ones, etc.  In ALL cases, with the arguable exception of their work in Poland in the 1980s, these have only hurt workers, their families, and destroyed ...