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Families of Police Brutality Victims Speak Out

Cinema is one of the most popular and powerful art forms of our time, and it both reflects and shapes the class contradictions in our society. In that way, it has been and still is an ideological battleground.

From the attacks on public education, to the chipping away of medicare and medicaid, more and more responsibility for providing care for the very young and very old have been placed on private families. The impacts of these attacks are felt most acutely by women who are overwhelmingly viewed as "natural" care providers, but the weight is carried by the working class as a whole. Come to this talk to discuss the reasons behinds these assaults and also a vision for an alternative.

This talk will sum up the arguments for the necessity of building a revolutionary socialist organization in the here and now before guiding attendees through the ABC methodology of starting an ISO branch as an individual or a small group.

James Connolly and the Easter Rising of 1916

This talk will examine the Marxist view of imperialism focusing on Marx, Lenin, Bukharin, and Trotsky. It will also give an overview of the changes in imperialism since Lenin's time and how it fits with other political questions.

Many on the left assume that Marx's focus on the working class and the development of industry prevented his giving proper attention to ecological issues. This talk examines various interpretations of Marx's writing on nature and suggest which of his ideas might prove most useful to present-day eco-socialists.

Ellen Meiksins Wood's The Retreat from Class

Owing to the dearth of written history on the topic, it may come as a surprise to learn that the issue of disability figured quite prominently in the socialist workers' revolution of 1917 in Russia. In fact, disability was such a central component to the entirety of the revolutionary process that the history itself is a proof of the following Marxist-derived principle: The liberation of disabled people is impossible without the liberation of the entire working class, and the liberation of the entire working class is impossible without the liberation of disabled people.

Politics and human sexuality.

We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political engagement and social activism. Pundits once fretted about Americans' apathy, but in the last few years we've seen uprisings and protests across the country: the growth of the Tea Party; the successful fight for a $15 minimum wage; a 21st century black freedom struggle with Black Lives Matter; Occupy Wall Street; and the grassroots networks supporting presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders. Americans' new social movements are reshaping the idea of class struggle for the 21st century.

What is the Marxist analysis of trade unions? What is the Marxist approach to working inside them? What historical examples can we draw on to inform our trade union work today?

Learn about the politics of the ISO.

Can The Police Be Reformed?

Is there room for art in our movements? Is there room for movements in art? This talk will explore the history of the intersection of art and movements, as well as artists and activists, throughout the United States since the early 1900s, with an eye for what we can learn from this history and apply to the present to make our movements stronger and keep art in the hands of the people.