| Friday, 8 pm |
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| Film showing: "Not Just A Game" |
Dave Zirin |
| Wildcat! The 1970 postal workers' strike |
Tara Lee, Keeanga Taylor |
| Will China rule the world? |
David Whitehouse |
| The Attica rebellion 40 years later |
Jazz Hayden and Lee Wengraf |
| A riot of my own: The Clash |
Nicole Colson |
| The Civil War: America?s second revolution |
Donny Schraffenberger |
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| Saturday, 9:30 am – 11 am |
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| Social movement unionism: How will the labor movement be rebuilt? |
Sal Rosselli, Ken Riley and Lee Sustar |
| A nation of immigrants: U.S. capitalism and immigrant labor |
Diana Macasa |
| Marxism and the state |
Todd Chretien |
| The fight for LGBT liberation |
Zakiya Khabir |
| Israel: Watchdog of imperialism |
Abbie Bakan and Michael Fiorentino |
| Whither Cuba? |
Sam Farber |
| The Iranian Revolution 1979 |
Shaun Joseph |
| The legacy of colonialism: How imperialism underdeveloped Africa |
Matt Swagler |
| Accumulation by dispossession from Rosa Luxemburg to David Harvey |
Geoff Bailey |
| Lenin and the vanguard party |
Jason Netek |
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| Saturday, 11:30 am – 1 pm |
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| Wisconsin: The end of the one-sided class war |
Eric Cobb, Joe Conway, Sam Jordan |
| Incarceration nation |
Liliana Segura |
| Raunch culture: The new sexism |
Rachel Cohen |
| The fight for immigrant rights after Arizona |
Mario Cardenas and others |
| Marxism, war, and imperialism |
Ashley Smith |
| Is water the new oil? |
Susan Jay |
| Crime, cops and capitalism |
Eric Kerl |
| Pedagogy and liberation |
Elizabeth Terzakis and Adrienne Johnson |
| Europe in upheaval: The revolutions of 1848 |
Jonah Birch |
| Do movements need leaders? |
Danny Lucia |
| The "war on drugs" |
Helen Redmond |
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| Saturday, 2 pm – 3:30 pm |
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| The Political-Economy of Doritos: Demystifying the Agro-Industrial Complex |
Arun Gupta |
| Mass strikes in U.S. history |
Sharon Smith |
| Palestine and the Arab Spring |
Ali Abunimah |
| The kids aren?t alright: The global youth revolt |
Zach Zill, Giovanni Roberto and Natalia Tylim |
| United front vs. popular front: Marxist strategy and tactics |
John McDonald |
| Palante: The story of the Young Lords |
Marisa Torres |
| ?Obama Care? vs. Single payer |
Tristin Adie |
| Is Marxism Eurocentric? |
Aaron Hess |
| Imperialism and revolution in Libya, Syria and beyond |
Rayyan Ghuma, Yusef Khalil and Mostafa Omar |
| May 1968: The French General Strike |
Jesse Zarley |
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| Saturday, 4 pm – 5:30 pm |
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| The future of the Middle East revolutions |
Ahmed Shawki |
| The fight for transgender rights |
Christine Darosa |
| Class and class struggle in Africa |
Lee Wengraf |
| The myth of "humanitarian intervention" |
Avery Wear |
| Eugene Debs |
Anthony Arnove |
| Lessons of February 1917: Spontaneity and organization |
Jason Yanowitz, Paul D'Amato, Paul Kellogg |
| Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Sioux struggle for freedom |
Michele Bollinger |
| Do we need to learn to live with less? |
Becca Bor |
| Latin America's "pink tide": Are the people in power? |
Jason Farbman |
| Marxism and morality |
Phil Gasper |
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| Saturday during dinner break |
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Broken on all sides: Race, mass incarceration and
new visions for criminal justice in the U.S. |
A documentary film |
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| Saturday, 7:30 pm |
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| Revolution and imperialism in the Middle East |
Ali Abunimah, Glenn Greenwald, Beesan Kassab, Ahmed Shawki, Mostafa Omar |
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| Sunday, 9:30 am – 11 am |
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| Egypt: The revolution continues |
Mostafa Omar, Beesan Kassab |
| Ours to master and to own: Workers? control from the Commune to the present |
Immanuel Ness |
| Marxism and postmodernism |
Dana Cloud |
| The hidden majority: workers in the U.S. |
Lichi D'Amelio |
| Victor Hugo: Literature and revolution in France |
Megan Behrent |
| Class struggles in India and Pakistan |
Snehal Shingavi, Adaner Usmani |
| The political economy of racism |
Sid Patel |
| Have women always been oppressed? |
Liz Clinton |
| Russia's Revolutionary Process: 1905-1917 |
Katie Feyh |
| Marx's Capital: Exploitation and surplus |
Petrino DiLeo |
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| Sunday, 11:30 am – 1 pm |
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| Nuclear madness: Why nuclear power is not a ?clean? option |
Chris Williams |
From anarchism to Bolshevism: Victor Serge
as conscience of the revolution |
Scott McLemee |
| Civil wars of U.S. labor |
Steve Early and Mike Elk |
| Marxism and the trade unions |
Larry Bradshaw |
| Black Reconstruction in America |
James Illingworth |
| Marxism and oppression |
Justin Akers |
| The legacy of Stalinism |
Kyle Brown |
| Is it enough to "be the change you want to see in the world"? |
Alex Schmaus |
| Base and superstructure |
Jen Roesch |
| Capitalism and education |
Sarah Knopp |
| The Democrats and social movements |
Ragina Johnson |
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| Sunday, 2 pm – 3:30 pm |
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| Rebellion to reform in Bolivia |
Jeffery Webber |
| Global slump: The restructuring of capitalism |
Deborah Goldsmith |
| Marx?s historical materialism |
Bill Keach |
| Out on the street: The housing crisis and the movement against foreclosures |
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |
| The labor wars of the 1990s |
Dan Lane and Sharon Smith |
| From the Moral Majority to the Tea Party: Understanding the right in the U.S. |
Adam Sanchez |
| Is human nature a barrier to socialism? |
Hannah Wolfe |
| Martin Luther King Jr.: The last years |
Marlene Martin |
| How can Palestinian liberation be achieved? |
Wael Elasady |
| Marxism and revolution |
Joel Geier |
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| Sunday, 4 pm – 5:30 pm |
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| Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions: The global struggle for Palestinian rights |
Omar Barghouti |
| Afghanistan: America's longest war |
Anand Gopal |
| ?That?s not art?: An analysis of modern art |
Annie Zirin |
| Abortion without apology: The case for a new movement |
Madeline Burrows and Jenny Espino |
Consciousness and change: How do workers
become ?fit to rule?? |
Leia Petty |
| The student movement against budget cuts |
Zach Williams, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Sarah Pomar |
| Crisis and class struggle in the age of austerity |
Lee Sustar |
| Marxism and political organization |
Paul LeBlanc |
| The Portuguese Revolution 1974-75 |
Dennis Kosuth |
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| Sunday, 7:30 pm |
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| Sports and resistance |
Dave Zirin and John Carlos |
| Civil liberties under Obama |
Glenn Greenwald |
| Film showing: "The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman" |
Brian Jones |
| Rosa Luxemburg: A revolutionary life |
Helen Scott |
| The myths of Zionism |
Sherry Wolf |
| People wasn?t made to burn: A story of race and housing in Chicago |
Joe Allen |
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| Monday, 10 am –11:15 am |
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Lenin, Trotsky, and the fight against
the Stalinist bureaucracy |
Paul D'Amato |
| Racism and inequality today: The state of Black America |
Khury Peterson-Smith |
| The politics of International Socialism |
Alan Maass |
| Lenin, Bukharin, and Luxemburg: The debate on the national question |
Jeff Bale |
| Marx's Capital: Capitalism and crisis |
Hadas Thier |
| The Industrial Workers of the World |
Joe Richard |
| A woman's place is in the revolution: Class struggle and women's liberation |
Elizabeth Schulte |
| The Mexican Revolution of 1910 |
Bridget Broderick |
| Is violence ever justified? |
Monique Dols |
| Marxism and the future socialist society |
Kirstin Roberts |
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| Monday, 11:45 am –1 pm |
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| Malcolm X: A life of reinvention |
Brian Jones |
| Trotsky?s theory of permanent revolution |
Shaun Harkin |
| Sitdown! The rise of the CIO |
Leighton Christiansen |
| The betrayal of Haiti |
Jesse Hagopian |
| Challenging the new ?Jim Crow? |
Mark Clements and Leela Yellesetty |
| Standing up to Islamophobia |
Deepa Kumar |
| Democracy or plutocracy: How corporations rule America |
Lance Selfa |
| Capitalism and sexuality |
Keegan O'Brien and Jessica Hansen-Weaver |
| Introduction to the ISO |
To be announced |
| The rise of the far right in Europe |
Leon Cremieux |
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| Monday, 2 pm – 3 pm |
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| The future in the present: Building revolutionary organization |
To be announced |
