Schedule
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Thursday 8pm |
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| Eugene Debs and American Socialism
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field |
| Iran and the Politics of the Middle East | Saman Sepheri |
| From Red Lining to Subprime: Racism and Housing in the U.S. |
Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor |
| Has Liberalism made a comeback? | Alan Maass |
Friday 9:30–11:00 am |
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| GIs Speakout Against Occupation | Open Mic for IVAW members |
| Kautsky, Plekhanov and Second International Marxism | Paul D’Amato |
| Islamophobia in America | Snehal Shingavi |
| Trotsky’s Struggle Against Stalinism | Jennifer Roesch |
| European Conquest and Indigenous resistance in the "New World" | Aaron Hess |
| Marx Versus the Anarchists | Eric Kerl |
| Marxism, Nationalism and Political Islam | Deepa Kumar |
| Cuba After Fidel | Sam Farber |
| The Marxist Theory of Alienation | Tristin Adie |
| Can global warming be stopped? | Cameron Sturdevant |
Friday 11:30 am–1:00 pm |
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| Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution | Amy Muldoon |
| "You say you want a revolution": Musical rebellion of the 1960s |
Nicole Colson |
| Che Guevara and Revolution in Latin America | Todd Chretien |
| Rogue state: US Imperialism Since 9/11 | Danny Katch |
| Alexandra Kollantai and Women’s Liberation | Elizabeth Lalasz |
| Life under siege in Gaza | Amira Hass, Mohammed Omer call-in from Rafah |
| Ida B Wells & the Campaign Against Lynching | Marlene Martin |
| Class Struggle in Egypt | Saber Barakat, Mamdouh Habashi |
| What do Socialists say about Direct Action? | Leia Petty |
| Trotsky's Analysis of Fascism | Bill Roberts |
| The Plunder of Africa and the Rise of Capitalism | Lee Wengraf |
Friday 2:00–3:30 pm |
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| The privatization of education | Sarah Knopp |
| ABC’s of Marxist Economics | Petrino DiLeo |
| The birth of Capitalism and Bourgeois Revolution | Steve Leigh |
| Black Soldiers and the Vietnam War | Joe Allen |
| Marxism and Gay Liberation: The Real History | Sherry Wolf |
| Undemocratic Democracy: The US Political System | Dana Cloud |
| Why the Theory of State Capitalism Still Matters | Dennis Kosuth |
| Mao: Myth and reality | Geoff Bailey |
| Lenin and the Revolutionary Party | Paul LeBlanc |
| Is the Earth overcrowded? | Kyle Brown |
| Bubble to Bust: The Global Economy of Today | Joel Geier |
Friday 4:00–5:30 pm |
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| Italy: From Left to Right | Yurii Colombo |
| Torture: From Guantanamo to Chicago Interrogation Rooms |
Darrell Cannon, Mozam Begg, Martina Correia, Jeremy Schahill |
| Art in Revolutionary Russia | Scott Johnson |
| Lenin and the Birth of Bolshevism | Ben Dalbey |
| Iraq: Eyewitness to Occupation | Dahr Jamail, Salam Talib |
| Why workers are key to transforming society | Lichi D’Amelio |
| Black Workers' Militancy in the 1960s | Jesse Hagopian |
| Unite and Fight?: Marxism and Identity Politics | Sharon Smith |
| From Al-Nakba to Israel: The Making of a Racist State | Paul Heideman |
Friday evening 7:30 pm |
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| Mozart and the Age of Enlightenment | Jessie Kindig |
| Immigrant Workers' Struggles Today | Orlando Sepulveda and other March 10 Coalition activists |
| Blackwater: Iraq's Mercenary Army Today | Jeremy Scahill |
| Martin Luther King's last struggle | Brian Jones |
| A System that Causes Crime, a Criminal Injustice System | Darrel Myers, Barbara Becnel, |
Saturday 9:30–11:00 am |
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| "To each according to their needs": What would Socialism be like? |
Zach Zill |
| What is Historical Materialism | Brian Chidester |
| Immigration, Migration and the World Economy | Justin Akers-Chácon |
| Latin America Since the Argentinazo | Joao Machado, Gonzalo Gomez, Tom Lewis |
| US Labor in Crisis and Transition | Brian Cruz, David Rapkin, Amy Muldoon |
| Lessons From the Last GI Movement | Martin Smith, Tod Ensign, Eric Ruder |
| The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Overture and the Haitian revolution |
Ashley Smith |
| "Bottom side up": Black Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | Brian Erway |
| A People's History of Sports | Dave Zirin |
| Marxism and the environment | Lance Newman |
| The class structure of U.S. capitalism today | Adam Turl |
Saturday 11:30–1:00 pm |
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| Rosa Luxemburg on the Mass Strike | Mike Corwin |
| The Fight for Women's Liberation: Lessons From the 60s and 70s |
Elizabeth Schulte |
| Slavery and the Origins of Racism | James Illingsworth |
| The Global Food Crisis | Mamdouh Habashi, Elizabeth Terzakis, and guest from Haiti |
| Lenin and Bukharin on Imperialism | Phil Gasper |
| Brazil: Building an Alternative to Lula's Neoliberalism | Joao Machado |
| Sicko Heathcare: the Fight for Single-Payer | Donna Smith, Dr. Linda Murray, Helen Redmond |
| Class Struggle and Immigrant Workers in US History | Gillian Russom |
| The rise and fall of SDS in the 60s | Khury Peterson-Smith |
| Afghanistan: The hidden war | Charles Peterson |
| What do revolutionaries say about reforms? | Kirstin Roberts |
Saturday 2:00–3:30 pm |
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| Global perspectives: A new era? | Ahmed Shawki |
| The Jewish Question: Anti-Semitism, Zionism and Capitalism |
Sam Bernstein |
| Have there always been rich and poor? The Origins of Class Society |
Dana Blanchard |
| Building a New GI Resistance Movement | Adrienne Kinne,
Phil Aliff, Camilo Mejia |
| Our Bodies Are Not Our Own: Sexuality and Alienation |
Adrienne Johnson |
| Green Scare: the Government's War on Grassroots Resistance |
Jeff St. Clair & Josh Frank |
| WWII: The Good War? | Darrin Hoop |
| From New Deal to raw deal: From Keynesianism to neoliberalism |
Elizabeth Terzakis |
| Rebel Girl: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the IWW | Megan Behrent |
| Institutional Racism: How does it Work? | Sid Patel |
| Tom Paine: Rebel with a Cause | Mark Steel |
Saturday 4:00–5:30 pm |
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| February 1917: Spontaneous Revolution? | Jason Yanowitz |
| Solidarity with the Freightliner 5 | Grady Allen Bradley, Glenna Swinford, Franklin Torrence, Robert Whiteside |
| Are American Lifestyles Destroying the World? | Regina Johnson |
| Boom, bust, and class struggle in China | David Whitehouse |
| Plan Colombia: Washington's War on Latin America | Bridget Broderick |
| Socialists and the State: Karl Marx on the Paris Commune |
David Rapkin |
| Venezuela at the Crossroads | Gonzalo Gomez, Lee Sustar |
| Jim Crow Justice: From the Jena Courthouse to the Texas Death House |
Alan Bean, Lawrence Foster, Lily Hughes |
| American Hunger: Richard Wright | David Thurston |
| 1968: The Year of the athlete's revolt | Dr. John Carlos, Dave Meggyesy, Dave Zirin |
| Forging of the American Empire | Andy Libson |
Saturday 6:00-7:00 pm |
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| Special Saturday Dinner Meeting: Introduction to the ISO |
Shaun Harkin |
Saturday 7:30 pm |
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SATURDAY Evening Rally: |
Saber Barakat: Egyptian activist Mamdouh Habashi: Egyptian activist Laila al-Arian: journalist, daughter of Sami al-Arian, Palestinian political prisoner in the U.S. Salam Talib: Iraqi journalist exposing U.S. war crimes Ahmed Shawki: editor, International Socialist Review Sherry Wolf: Jewish anti-Zionist and socialist recently returned from Middle East |
Sunday 10:00 am–12:00 pm |
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| Socialism: Utopian and Scientific | Anthony Arnove |
| How to Read Marx’s Capital | Larry Bradshaw |
| Capitalism and Crisis Theory: The Debate on the Left |
Lee Sustar |
| Dialectics: The logic of Marxism | Shaun Harkin |
| Lenin on the right of nations to self-determination | Jessie Muldoon |
| The Communist International: At the gate of world Revolution |
Shaun Joseph |
| The Revolutionary Ideas of Antonio Gramsci | Bill Keach |
| Communism and Nationalism in the Middle East | Hadas Their |
| 1930s: US Workers in Revolt | Roger Dyer |
| Tribune of the Oppressed: Marxism and Liberation |
Hannah Fleury |
| Kautsky and the Foundations of Christianity | Eric Ruder |
Sunday 1:00 PM |
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SUNDAY Final Rally: |
Sharon Smith, Alan Maass |