2016 Convention archive – Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

Socialist Education Project webinar

New Political Openings in the Time of Covid-19

Socialist Education Project online webinar

Cosponsored by CCDS and Liberation Road

Monday, April 27, 9pm (eastern time) — Zoom link below

Featuring Marilyn Albert and Bill Fletcher Jr.

Systemic disaster or shock can open possibilities for social change not available in the US during normal times; the Covid-19 pandemic is such a crisis. The right wing will seek to exploit the situation; what will the Left do? The CCDS discussion will present an overview and examples, with two speakers:

Marilyn Albert — new opportunities for promoting single payer health care.

Bill Fletcher — How the Right is using the crisis to advance its agenda.

The presentations will be followed by Q&A and discussion, including suggestions for new ways of online organizing..

the speakers:

Marilyn Albert is a retired Registered Nurse with over 40 years of experience; she worked in the New York City hospitals for most of her career. She has been active in the movement for single payer health care since the 1970s. She is a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and lives in Richmond, California.

Bill Fletcher Jr. is a former president of TransAfrica Forum, writer, commentator trade unionist and activist. His books include: The Man Who Fell From the Sky (fiction); Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral (co-editor); ‘They’re Bankrupting us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions; and Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice.

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Meeting information.

On-line anti-imperialism conference

21st Century Imperialism: Theory and Practice – Webinar – July 18 (Liberation Road & Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism)

Saturday, July 18, 2020 — Noon to 8 pm EST
via Zoom

Featuring

Session 1: Imperialism Today

Medea Benjamin, Code Pink; Jerry Harris, Global Studies Association; Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental

Session 2: Systemic Conflicts

Sangeeta Kamat, UMASS-Amherst; Alfred McCoy, U of Wisconsin; Tarso Luis Ramos, executive director of Political Research Associates

Session 3: A Talk Show on International Solidarity

Host: Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Panelists: Lisa Brock, Cuba Solidarity Work; Oscar Chacon, Immigrant Rights; Meredith Tax, Feminist and Kurdish Rights Advocate; Cindy Wiesner, Grassroots Global Justice

THE TELECONFERENCE will consist of 3 two-hour sessions, each with 45 minutes for Q&A. The first will begin at noon EST, followed by an hour break. A second will be from 3-5pm EST. A final session will take place from 6- 8 pm EST. A headset & webcam, or a smartphone, is recommended

TO REGISTER, GO HERE

THE 21st CENTURY HAS BROUGHT NEW FORMS OF CAPITALISM – from the globalization of production, to financial speculation, to new kinds of cross-national class formations. Paralleling these changes in the nature of national and global capitalism have been new resistance from Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, to the Pink Tide in Latin America, to international boycott campaigns, to global worker mobilizations to fight Covid 19. Given the rise of neoliberal globalization, drone warfare, crippling economic blockades, a burgeoning climate crisis, and new forms of rightwing populism organized around racism, sexism and revanchism, it is time for the left to have a serious conversation about twenty-first century imperialism.

For more details contact Bill Fletcher <billfeltcherjr@gmail.com> or Harry Targ <targ@purdue.edu>, or Janet Tucker <jlynjenks@gmail.com>