Workers World Party National Conference
SAT•SUN • NOV 15•16
NEW YORK CITY
The New Situation in the U.S. and the World
• The Obama election
• Worst capitalist crisis since the 1930's
• The challenges facing the working class and the oppressed, socialists, revolutionaries here in the belly of the beast
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM - 127 E. 22nd ST, NYC
Register online here.
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Topics will include:
• An assessment of the Obama presidency
• The deepening economic crisis—What is it and how can we fight back?
• Supporting the right to self-determination against imperialism in the Middle East, Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Asia & inside the U.S.
• Pushing forward the class struggle=UNITY against racism, national oppression, immigrant bashing, women’s oppression and LGBT oppression
• Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) on organizing youth & students
• Why capitalism is the problem and Socialism is the solution
and much more
• Plenaries
• Discussion groups
• Strategy sessions
• Music/spoken word
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for more information:
Boston - 617-983-3835 • boston@workers.org
National Office - 212-627-2994 • wwp@workers.org • www.workers.org • www.workersworld.net
Workers World Party Forum
The Capitalist Meltdown & the Struggle for Socialism
Saturday Oct. 4 - 7:00 pm
Action Center
284 Amory St. (The Brewery - 1 block from Stony Brook on the Orange Line), Jamaica Plain, MA
• Is the cause of the economic crisis just a few bad apples or is capitalism rotten to the core?
• Why and how is socialism the answer to the crisis of capitalism?
• Youth and the capitalist economic crisis
• Here rank and file leaders from the Boston School Bus Drivers, USW L. 8751, discuss how a community/labor coalition help them win an historic contract
Everyday the capitalist economic crisis continues to grow. In an unprecedented move Wall Street investment firms, banks, and insurance companies have been taken over by the government or forced into mergers. Foreclosures are happening at a record pace and unemployment is on the rise. In an effort to avoid the complete collapse of capitalism, Congress, under intense pressure by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke are about to pass a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street on top of the $315 billion already given to bailout the giant insurer AIG as well as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Bear Stearns banks.
No matter how much this bailout is “improved” by some minimal concessions on secondary issues, such as limiting executive pay—if that ever happens—or any other palliative measure, the fact is that the working class is going to be forced deeper into debt to pay off the debts of the bankers who robbed the workers in the first place. This bailout is a ruling-class solution. The bankers and the government can be made to change their tune when faced with a mass struggle demanding a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. They can be pushed back by a movement demanding an end to layoffs and plant closings and the right to a job for all workers.
To fight off the effects of a depression or any economic crisis, the workers must have their own program and advance their own demands. Housing is a right. Education and health care are rights. A job is a right. The only way to turn back this onslaught of foreclosures, evictions and layoffs, and stop the bailout at the same time, is to fight back in an organized, mass, militant way
Workers World Party Forum
The Struggle Against War, Racism & the Economic Crisis
Thursday August 14 - 6:30pm
Action Center
284 Amory St. (The Brewery), Jamaica Plain, MA
• The Growing Struggle Against Foreclosures, Utility Shutoffs and the Rising Cost of Food & Fuel
• The Capitalist Economic Crisis & the Struggle for Socialism
• U.S. Imperialism, Israel and the Threat of War on Iran
• Youth Need Jobs & Education Not Racism & Police Brutality
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Workers World Party
Black History Month Forum
Sat. March 1 - 5:30pm
Cultural Cafe
76 Atherton St., Jamaica Plain, MA
$5 Donation -- Refreshments -- Childcare
$1 Donation for unemployed, youth & students
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Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST)
Workers World Party
Saturday, Dec. 15 - 2-5:00pm
Brick -by- Brick
Wall -by- Wall
Fighting RACISM and VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
From Lower Ninth Ward to Lower Roxbury
From Jena to Jersey to West Virginia
LA to Philadelphia to New York to Boston
Saturday, Dec. 15 - 2-5:00pm
Action Center
284 Amory St. (The Brewery), Jamaica Plain, MA
Donation -- Refreshments -- Childcare -- Open Mic/Discussion
Panel Discussion
Natural Bliss - Hip-Hop Artist
Mia Campbell - Politicin' with the Sisters, Women's Fightback Network, FIST
Jon Regis - Justice for Hector Rivas Committee
Tyneisha Bowens - National FIST organizer
Workers World Party National Conference November 17-18 2007, NYC School Auditorium - 127 East 22nd Street - New York City
Sat., Nov. 17
9:00 a.m. Registration
10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Conference Sessions
Sun., Nov. 18
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Conference Sessions
For pre-conference discussion, Workers World Party National Conference 2007 (chapters one and two of the forthcoming book, "Colossus with Feet of Clay: U.S. imperialism, globalization and the working class")
By Fred Goldstein, Secretariat, Workers World Party
Prepared for the International Communist Seminar in Brussels, 4-6 May, 2007
By Fred Goldstein, Secretariat, Workers World Party
The U.S. Congress is preparing to recess. The White House moves to Texas. The puppet Iraqi Congress is set to take the month of August off. But the occupation, the war, the murder of Iraqis and the dying of U.S. troops goes on, and more money goes to the U.S. military-industrial complex....
for more info: www.iacboston.org or www.troopsoutnow.org
Friday, August 10 - 7:00pm
Palestine, Lebanon and the Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism
Action Center
284 Amory St. (The Brewery), Jamaica Plain, MA
Donation -- Refreshments -- Childcare
featuring:
Ahmad Kawash - Palestine American Congress, Palestine American Congress and long-time Palestinian activist; Ahmad has just returned after spending a month in Lebanon and Jordan.\\
- The U.S./Lebanon assault on the Nahar al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp
- Hamas, Gaza and the Struggle Against Imperialism in Palestine
Update on the Organizing for the September 22-29 Anti-War Encampment in Front of Congress and the September 29 National March on Washington DC
A major lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) anti-war coalition—AskTellAct (www.asktellact.org)—dominated this year’s LGBT Pride march in Boston on June 9. It was the biggest anti-war contingent in Boston LGBT history—and the single biggest group in this year’s march....
Marxism Reparations and
the Black Freedom Struggle
Sat. June 23 - 4:00pm
Action Center
284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA
Donation -- Refreshments -- Childcare
Learn more about this important book on Reparations
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Featuring:
Monica Moorehead - Workers World Party leader, managing editor of WWP newspaper, coordinator of Millions for Mumia & editor of "Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle"
Larry Hales - Larry is a national leader of F.I.S.T. (Fight Imperialism Stand Together). Larry has written extensively on the historical role of culture in resistance movements for Workers World newspaper
Dorothea Peacock - Women's Fightback Network
Update on the recent victorious struggle to reopen the South Side Boys & Girls Club in Providence, RI
New World View Forum book on African American history and resistance.
Essays cover the meaning of the ongoing Katrina catastrophe; and
building Black-Brown unity and solidarity against oppression.
These essays, from a variety of folks working on a number of Black struggles, testify to
the central truth that Black History is the epic saga of resistance, rebellion and revolt. These
struggles show us all that true freedom is still an objective to be attained, rather than a reality.
What, pray tell, did Katrina show us?
— Mumia Abu-Jamal, author, We Want Freedom:
A Life in the Black Panther Party; political prisoner
Other races or people have received reparations for crimes committed against them,
such as Japanese people and Jewish people. Slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade were
crimes against humanity. Reparations for African Americans are long overdue. The issue of
reparations has always led me to think more and more about my right to ‘forty acres and a
mule.’ When people in the Black community read this book they will be motivated to fight
back.
— Robert Traynham, USWA Local 8751, Boston School
Bus Drivers; former Black Panther Party member
This powerfully—and passionately—written book reveals how descendants of those who
got rich from enslaving African peoples grow ever wealthier today with that capital in their
vaults. Within these pages is fl esh-and-blood understanding that the demand for reparations—
justice, delayed and denied—is a component of a dynamic struggle for national liberation
that has raged since mass kidnap pings of millions of people from Africa, the holocaust of
the Middle Passage and enslavement. No justice? No peace!
— Leslie Feinberg, award-winning author, Stone Butch Blues,
Transgender Warriors, Trans Liberation, & Drag King Dreams; activist
