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Faced with a resurgence of racism, chauvinism, and xenophobia, it is time to reassess the way we read Marx. Contrary to common assumptions, Marx had much to say about race, nationalism, colonialism, and their legacies. From his writings on the U.S. Civil War to his late texts on indigenous communities and their revolutionary potential, Marx’s dialectic was global and multicultural. This has implications for today’s struggles, including the challenge posed by the Trump campaign.

As anti-Muslim hate spirals out of control, many of the people loudly condemning demagogues like Donald Trump set the stage for their rise. That's because Islamophobia is about more than just reactionary hate and bigotry. This talk will explore how Islamophobia is necessary for legitimizing US military aggression in the Middle East while serving as a useful tool for ruling elites to divide and distract the masses from economic inequality domestically.

We will offer a critical perspective on the Saul Alinsky's classic "Rules of Radicals" from the Left.

This session will uncover the history of racism in America and how this legacy continues to shape our understanding of its persistence under capitalism.

Coercion, violence, genocide, and war against Indigenous populations were central components of the birth of the capitalist mode of production. As land was privatized and commodified, it became a central force of capitalist development, production and wealth, (alongside slavery and wage labor) for the U.S. nation-state. People were ripped from the land and their means of sustenance, and this process has turned the vast majority of people into exploited wage laborers where wealth has been concentrated into the top of US society. What has this process looked like for Native Americans and Indigenous Nations in the United States? How should issues of class oppression and exploitation be understood alongside fighting for Indigenous sovereignty, against further dispossession, and for Native American self-determination?

We will examine the origins of the police, how the institution has evolved since its earliest days, and whose interests they serve. We will also discuss strategies for combating police violence and abuse.

Bernie Sanders' campaign has brought the ideas of socialism back into the political mainstream. But how can we win it—especially given the stranglehold of the U.S. two-party system?

Revolutionaries on Campus: The Student Movement in the 1930's

Culture is a concept notoriously difficult to define. What is culture? What isn't culture? This talk will explore the development of culture as an important theoretical concept within the Marxist tradition beyond its common identification with the “fine arts.”

Why the Politics of the United Front Still Matter

This talk will uncover the history of Black feminists and demonstrate how these women were integrated in international socialist and working class struggles from below. More concretely, the conversation will highlight the role that Black women activists and theoreticians played in shaping and radicalizing social movements throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

The rise of a militant right in response to the economic crisis and its corresponding xenophobia has pushed the specter of fascism into political discourse. This talk looks at fascism in Germany in the 1930s and why it succeeded there. We will look at the conditions that give rise to fascism, where it gets its support, and then using Trotsky's analysis and methods provide a method for defeating it.

Justice for Alton! Justice for Philando! : What Next in the Movement for Black Lives?

Eugene Debs, as James Cannon said, did more to "Americanize Socialism" than anyone else. He was a union man who came to join the Socialist Party, a party whose membership at one point stood at 130,000 members. He spoke with biting sarcasm about the Capitalist class and was beloved amoung workers. Come learn about his important influcence in the formation of the first Socialist Party in America.

Many activists are drawn to Afro-pessimism as an explanation for the persistence of racism in America (and the world). This talk will explore both what is useful about Afro-pessimist thinkers and critique some of the implications of Afro-pessimist thought