Emel Mathlouthi: The Artist as Activist
Revolutionary University October 2016 Emel Mathlouthi, Tunisian singer, songwriter, social commentator and participant in the Arab Spring – will take us through her musical and political journey. He song Kelmti Horra (my word is free) became well-known throughout Tunisia during the struggles against the rule of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
The Refugee Crisis in Europe & Social Movements in France
Revolutionary University October 2016 Pauline Casy. activist in the French revolutionary group “L’Etincelle” (The Spark) and Toni Robert, activist in the German revolutionary group Sozialistische Arbeiterstimme (Socialist Workers Voice)
Carol Dansereau: A Socialist Perspective on the Environment
Revolutionary University October 2016 Why are we losing our fight for the Earth? And what will it take to win? To answer these urgent questions, we must understand what’s blocking our way forward: an economic system based on exploitation of the earth and of its people. We must acknowledge that many of the strategies followed […]
Joel Beinin: Workers and the Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
Revolutionary University October 2016 Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University and author of the recent book “Workers and Thieves” will discuss the struggles of the working classes and unemployed in Egypt and Tunisia and their roles in the 2011 popular uprisings known as the Arab Spring.
What are the police doing?
Dressed in black, with hoods or masks and some of them armed, the demonstrators marched down the Champs Elysees on October 21st without authorization from the Prefecture. They were lucky. Last spring, the riot cops gassed and clubbed others demonstrators with less incentive to do so… After playing auxiliary riot police against protesters hostile to […]
Robin Kelley: Revisiting Black Marxism in the Wake of Black Lives Matter
Revolutionary University October 2016 Robin D. G. Kelley, is Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, and current Chair of the Department of African American Studies and a prolific author and editor My talk reflects on the life and work of Cedric J. Robinson, […]
An Epidemic of Violence Against Women
Over the past weeks, the public has heard audio of Trump saying some of his most disgusting comments about women. He brags about kissing women without permission, and how he likes to walk up to them and “grab them by the p—y”, how he can “do anything” to them because he is famous. In Trump’s […]
Our Role In Transforming The World (audio)
Revolutionary University October 2016 Activists in Speak Out Now present a revolutionary socialist perspective on the challenges and choices we all confront today.
Harriet Fraad: How Capitalism Shreds Our Personal Lives
Revolutionary University October 2016 Harriet Fraad is a licensed mental health counselor and hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has been an activist in the feminist movement and the journal Rethinking Marxism. For 40 years, she has been a radical committed to transforming US personal and political life.
Richard D. Wolff: Crisis – It’s How Capitalism Works
Revolutionary University October 2016 Richard Wolff, Marxist professor of economics, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School University, New York City. He is the author of numerous books and articles and host of the weekly radio […]
Against the puppet show, let’s make our voices heard!
The debate between the seven candidates in the conservative primary has, unsurprisingly, shown that they agree to make us work harder, and to cut taxes for the rich and the corporations. As for Hollande, after ridiculing himself with his book of confidences to reporters, he now dares to go back to Florange and tell new […]
To the Point of Nausea
France, Europe, “welcoming lands”? What a sinister joke! Hollande may cry over the fate of the people of Aleppo, but those fleeing wars from Syria and elsewhere are treated as lepers by the government, while the racist and xenophobic demagogy is becoming commonplace here in France. A criminal policy The countries bordering war zones are […]
Working People Need Our Own Party
With elections one month away, it couldn’t be more obvious that what is being promised has nothing to do with solving any of the real problems working people face today. Donald Trump pretends he is anti-establishment and an outsider to Washington politics. Really? A billionaire businessman who brags about profiting from the crisis of 2008 […]
A Socialist Perspective on the Environment (Saturday, October 22)
Why are we losing our fight for the Earth? And what will it take to win? To answer these urgent questions, we must understand what’s blocking our way forward: an economic system based on exploitation of the earth and of its people. We must acknowledge that many of the strategies followed by environmental groups up […]
Solidarity with the refugees: Don’t let them divide us
While visiting Calais, Francois Hollande promised to break up the “jungle”, the camp where refugees wait in the hope to be able to go to the UK. The president’s promises were just what Calais’ conservative mayor had wished for: the same policy as Nicolas Sarkozy had led when he had the Sangatte camp broken up, […]