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This talk outlines the rise and fall of the left neoliberalism of the Workers' Party in Brazil, the current political crisis, and the prospects for resistance.

After the Civil War, U.S. policy was to force all Indians to live on reservations. In 1877, a group of Nez Perce Indians attempted to escape to Canada, fighting off hundreds of American troops over a 1,500-mile chase through Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, besting U.S. forces in every military engagement except the last—and finally surrendering thirty miles from the Canadian border. The Nez Perce War is one of the most famous wars in the history of conquest of indigenous peoples on this continent by the United States.

1917 | How the Bolsheviks Came to Power

It's often argued that women's oppression has existed throughout all of human history. Arguments about biology, psychology and human nature are constantly marshaled to justify women's subordination, explaining it as a natural result of inherent male dominance and competition. But is gendered oppression inevitable? This talk will argue against those claims, proving that the oppression of women is not inescapable and has not always existed. It will discuss how Marxists have approached the question, and finally, will insist that we can build a better world free of all forms of gendered oppression.

Marxism and Orientalism

The Russian Revolution gives us a glimpse of the highest forms of working class self-rule. Women played a central part of this, ranging from strike leaders in the city centers to rural organizers collectivizing domestic work. Come here the stories of these women, their role in educating and organizing workers in the years leading up to1917, the debates around women's oppression that took place internationally and the role of women's resistance in achieving a socialist society.

Women and the Family in an Era of Capitalist Crisis

Despite winning major victories in recent years, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people still face high levels of systemic violence and discrimination. This talk will examine the origins of LGBT oppression from a Marxist perspective and highlight the history of queer struggles past and present that can teach us about the ongoing fight for LGBT liberation today.

The U.S. is carrying out a new geopolitical and military strategy in the Asia-Pacific region called the Pivot to Asia. Through this strategy, the U.S. is leading a new round of nationalism, militarization, and conflict in the region as the U.S. and its allies rally against the rise of China. This talk discusses the goals of the Pivot to Asia, what is happening in the Pacific as a result, and how it can be stopped.

Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines the latest scientific findings about the causes and consequences of the Anthropocene, and the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis. This is the first North American presentation of Ian Angus' new book Facing the Anthropocene, published by Monthly Review Press.

Inside Putin's Russia

Today's militarized borders are responsible for violence and death on a horrific scale. This talk will make the case for open borders by looking at the current ways borders are used to control and weaken the working class internationally.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,200 public television and radio stations worldwide. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. Goodman’s book with Denis Moyniham, The Silenced Majority Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, was released by Haymarket

Lenin's Left Wing Communism

Revolutionary unionists and socialists worked side-by-side in the early 20th century to develop tactics and formulate principles by which to organize working people regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender to fight a brutally oppressive and exploitative society. Historical events and the development of capitalism laid out political questions, the potential for confronting exploitation and oppression, and the reality of reorganizing society on a global scale. Join us in unraveling the rich history of the IWW, Syndicalism, and Marxism of the early 20th Century and the lessons for us today.