Workers World Party, 5920 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48202 · 313-459-0777 · detroit@workers.org
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WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS & DISCUSSION
"How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,Chap. 2, Sec. 2" by Walter Rodney
http://www.blackherbals.com/walter_rodney.pdf
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
Saturday, May 12, 2012, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
The Detroit Marxism Class series continues with the study of an important and relevant work on the historical role of Africa in world history. Walter Rodney, who taught for years at the University of Dares Salaam in Tanzania, published this book in 1972.
As the U.S. government and ruling class intensifies its intervention in Africa with wars of economic penetration, aggression and occupation in Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe and other states, it is essential that activists and students of modern life be grounded in the actual historical evolution of the relationship between the African continent and world imperialism.
Past Events
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS & DISCUSSION
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 5 pm
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 (at Antoinette, just north of Wayne State University)
"What is going on in China?"
Reading material from Workers World newspaper:
http://www.workers.org/china/
WWP Discussion Leader: David Sole
Dinner served -- $5 donation, $1 unemployed
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS & DISCUSSION
Saturday, April 28, 2012, 5 pm
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 (at Antoinette, just north of Wayne State University)
The 1975 economic crisis in New York City and lessons for Detroit today - Part 2
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
Reading materials:
Perspective on the economic crisis
From protest to mass action WWP statement on crisis of the unemployed
NYC and the laws of capitalist economy
1977Mar11 NYC The real meaning of the current financial crisis
Dinner served -- $5 donation, $1 unemployed
WORKERS WORLD PARTY PUBLIC FORUM - DETROIT BRANCH
FIGHTBACK AGAINST THE “FINANCIAL ADVISORY BOARD” IN DETROIT
NOT ONE PENNY TO THE BANKS WHO HAVE DESTROYED DETROIT!
NO TO LAY-OFFS, WAGE CUTS, ELIMINATION OF HUMAN SERVICES AND PRIVATIZATION!
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 5 pm
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 (at Antoinette, just north of Wayne State University)
Dinner served -- $5 donation, $1 unemployed
On April 4th, the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. the governing bodies of Detroit capitulated to Governor Rick Snyder and Wall Street by agreeing to a so-called “Financial Stability Agreement” (FSA). The FSA cedes control over the city’s finances to a nine member Financial Advisory Board in lieu of the appointment of an Emergency Manager with similar authority under Public Act 4.
The purpose of Public Act 4 which will now be implemented through the Financial Advisory Board, is to guarantee the bank’s robbery of the City of Detroit. According to the Governor’s financial review team, Detroit paid $597 million in debt service to the banks in 2010 alone. The City’s long-term liability to the banks is $16.9 billion, including $4.9 billion in interest. In 2010, the city’s debt to net assets ratio was an amazing 32.64 to 1.
Public Act 4 guarantees the banks “payment in full of the scheduled debt service requirements on all bonds, notes and municipal securities.” The same banks which destroyed the neighborhoods of Detroit with their predatory lending practices will be assured they get paid out of the city treasury, while services, jobs and city worker wages are slashed to the bone.
The FSA is a union-busting move. Contracts negotiated by city unions have been tossed out by the FSA in a move meant to humiliate the union leadership. It is a racist move. The majority of African American cities in Michigan will now be under either an emergency manager or financial board, essentially nullifying the Black vote throughout Michigan. It is insane that in Detroit, the poorest city in the country, the Department of Human Services is to be eliminated so the banks which destroyed the city can get paid.
In Harrisburg, PA and Stockton, CA the city governments, faced with a similar situation to Detroit, made the decision to pay their workers and maintain services and not pay the banks. In Greece, workers have gone on numerous general strikes in response to the same kind of austerity being imposed on Detroit. The banks were forced to accept a 75% reduction in debt service payments. And in Iceland after the working class rebelled, the banks were forced to write off all debts owed on underwater mortgages. Come to a public meeting to discuss how to mount a similar fightback against the banks in the City of Detroit.
Call 313-680-5508 for more information
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS & DISCUSSION
The 1975 economic crisis in New York City and lessons for Detroit today - Part 1
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
Reading materials:
Perspective on the economic crisis
From protest to mass action WWP statement on crisis of the unemployed
NYC and the laws of capitalist economy
1977Mar11 NYC The real meaning of the current financial crisis
Saturday, April 14, 2012, 5 pm
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 (at Antoinette, just north of Wayne State University)
NATIONAL CONFERENCE in Detroit
National Conference to Fight for a Moratorium on Foreclosures
Saturday, March 31, 2012, 9 am to 6 pm
Central United Methodist Church
23 E. Adams (at Woodward), Detroit, MI 48226
for more info, please visit: NationalMoratorium.org
WORKERS WORLD PARTY PUBLIC FORUM - DETROIT BRANCH
Celebrate International Women’s Day & Women’s History Month
HONOR WOMEN WARRIORS!
Saturday, March 17, 2012, 5 pm
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 (at Antoinette, just north of Wayne State University)
Dinner Served -- Donation $5 -- $1 unemployed
International Working Women’s Day—March 8—has been celebrated around the world for over a century. The day commemorates protests by women garment workers in New York City against starvation pay and brutal conditions.
This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the famous eight week “Bread and Roses” strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. There textile workers, a majority of them immigrant women and children, struck when their hours and therefore their pay were reduced. They won a pay increase while keeping the reduction in hours. And 75 years ago women were indispensable to the great sit-down movement—not only the spouses and family members of male autoworkers but women who worked in Detroit’s factories and department stores.
Working class women today are still making history. Some are leaders in the Occupy movement and others are fighting for and winning the right to stay in their homes. Women are leaders in the immigrant rights movement. They are fighting to overturn racist and anti-union laws like Public Act 4—the emergency manager law, otherwise known as the dictator law. All around the world women are resisting, from the Israeli occupation of Palestine, to the death squad dictatorships in Colombia and Honduras, to the general strikes rocking Greece.
We won’t wait another century! We demand bread and roses—and jobs, peace, housing, education, equality, union wages and a whole lot more—right now!
Join us in celebrating the women of the working class, who made and are still making history.
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"The Global Class War" by Sam Marcy, Part 2
WWP Discussion Leader: Derek Thacker
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"The Global Class War" by Sam Marcy
WWP Discussion Leader: Derek Thacker
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"The Civil War in France" by Karl Marx
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/civil_war_france.pdf
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
WWP Discussion Leader: Jordan Nicholson
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY FORUM - DETROIT BRANCH
Labor Rights, Civil Rights: A Legacy of Class Struggle
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
Dinner served before the program - donation requested, no one turned away for lack of funds
FEBRUARY 11 is the 75th anniversary of the victory of the 1937 Flint Sit-down strike, one of the most significant events in U.S. labor history. After occupying General Motors plants for 44 days, workers won recognition of the United Auto Workers and the first industry contract. This victory set off a chain reaction. Not only autoworkers but workers in steel, textile, retail, restaurant, public service and other sectors won union recognition. During this year of working class upsurge African-American workers, as well as Latino/a, Asian, Native, immigrant and women workers, played a pivotal role.
February 11 is also the 22nd anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison and the first anniversary of the resignation—after the Egyptian masses took to the streets—of ex-President Hosni Mubarak. The struggle in Egypt inspired the occupation of the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, and the Occupy movement that has swept the country.
FEBRUARY 12 is the 44th anniversary of the start of the Memphis sanitation strike. African-American workers began this strike on Lincoln’s birthday to draw attention to the slave conditions they were working under, which led to the death of two workers who were crushed inside a compactor. Martin Luther King was in Memphis to show solidarity with the strike when he was assassinated April 4th, 1968. On April 16 AFSCME Local 1733 had won a first contract.
FEBRUARY is AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH.
We invite you to a public forum on these important historical milestones, where we will draw lessons for the struggles unfolding right now.
Speakers:
MARTHA GREVATT has been a UAW Chrysler worker for 24 years, first in Ohio and now in Detroit. She has written extensively on the crisis facing autoworkers for Workers World. She is the author of a pamphlet, “In Our Hands is Placed a Power: the Flint Sit-down Strike” and is working on a book on the same subject.
ABAYOMI AZIKIWE, editor of the Pan-African Newswire, has researched and written extensively on the political and social history of Southwest Tennessee where Memphis is located. His presentation will focus on the sanitation workers strike as a culmination of a decade-long struggle in the region and the relationship of these historical developments to the current situation involving African American workers in the South and in the city of Detroit.
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," by Walter Rodney
http://www.blackherbals.com/walter_rodney.pdf
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
Saturday, January 28, 2012, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH PUBLIC MEETING
Behind the Lies
WHY THE U.S. HATES NORTH KOREA
Saturday, January 21, 2012, 5:00 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI (North of WSU, one block west of Cass)
Dinner Served ($5 donation/$1-unemployed, students, seniors, fixed income; no one turned away for lack of funds)
Hear DEIRDRE GRISWOLD
The editor of Workers World newspaper and a Secretariat member of Workers World Party, Griswold has traveled to both north and south Korea and seen first-hand the effects of U.S. imperialism on the Korean Peninsula. Her talk will include discussion on:
►Why Kim Jong Il’s death stirred so much venom in the corporate-owned media
►Why the U.S. has spent 66 years trying to crush the Korean Revolution
►How U.S. activists can best defend the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
See “Understanding the ‘problem’ of Korea” by Deirdre Griswold at www.workers.org
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Crisis in the High Tech Era - Part 3"
http://www.mecawi.org/Capitalism%20at%20a%20Dead%20End%20-%202%20col.%20ctrd%20head%20-%20fred.pdf
This pamphlet analyzes the current epoch of Capitalist crisis..It was written by Fred Goldstein, leader of Workers World and author of Low Wage Capitalism.
Saturday, December 17, 2011, 5:00 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Crisis in the High Tech Era - Part 2"
http://www.mecawi.org/Capitalism%20at%20a%20Dead%20End%20-%202%20col.%20ctrd%20head%20-%20fred.pdf
This pamphlet analyzes the current epoch of Capitalist crisis..It was written by Fred Goldstein, leader of Workers World and author of Low Wage Capitalism.
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 5:00 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Crisis in the High Tech Era - Part 1"
http://www.mecawi.org/Capitalism%20at%20a%20Dead%20End%20-%202%20col.%20ctrd%20head%20-%20fred.pdf
This pamphlet analyzes the current epoch of Capitalist crisis..It was written by Fred Goldstein, leader of Workers World and author of Low Wage Capitalism.
Saturday, November 12, 2011, 5:00 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH PUBLIC MEETING
U.S. OUT OF AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST!
Condemn the U.S./NATO Lynching and Honor the Life of Col. Muamar Gadhafi
Saturday, October 29, 2011, 5:00 pm
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 (at Antoinette, just north of Wayne State University)
Dinner Served -- Donation $5 -- $1 unemployed
Workers World Party condemns the lynching of Col. Muamar Gadhafi at the hands of the U.S./NATO war machine in Libya for the profit of Wall Street. WWP continues to demand U.S./NATO imperialism get out of Libya and all of Africa. We denounce the Pentagon's imposition of AFRICOM on the continent and call for self-determination free from imperialist intervention for all oppressed peoples struggling for liberation.
FIGHT IMPERIALISM STAND TOGETHER MARXISM CLASS
Class and discussion group on Marxism
Wednesday, October 26, 6:00 pm
At Occupy Detroit - Pingree statue, on northeast corner of occupation
(Grand Circus Park, Woodward at Adams, downtown Detroit)
Class will be moved inside to LAX across from occupation if weather is bad.
FIGHT IMPERIALISM STAND TOGETHER (FIST) is a Revolutionary Youth Organization
For more information contact:
586-744-2797 email: salvatorenoth@yahoo.com
WORKERS WORLD PARTY NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Rides from Detroit: call 313-680-5508
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH PUBLIC MEETING
From Gaza to Tahrir Square, the People's Resistance Lives
Public Meeting and Book Signing with Joyce Chediac, Author of new book, Gaza, Symbol of Resistance
Saturday, October 1, 2011, 5:00 pm
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 (at Antoinette, just north of Wayne State University)
Dinner Served -- Donation $5 -- $1 unemployed
Joyce Chediac is the editor of the new groundbreaking book, "Gaza: Symbol of Resistance." She has been an activist and writer on Palestinian and Middle Eastern issues for many years. She recently travelled to Egypt to report on developments in the revolutionary movement that has swept the country and the region since the beginning of this year. Her talk will analyze the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations, the growing tension between the Egyptian revolution and the state of Israel and the impact of the Arab Spring on U.S. and Middle Eastern relations. Chediac is a healthcare worker and a frequent contributor to Workers World newspaper based in New York. A book signing will follow the meeting.
“Gaza, Symbol of Resistance is a great resource for people of conscience”
– Dr. Sami Al-Arian, Palestinian political prisoner in the U.S.
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Finish Chapter 1 of "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," by Walter Rodney
http://www.blackherbals.com/walter_rodney.pdf
WWP Discussion Leader: Tashi Kiya
Saturday, September 24, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Chapter 3 of "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by V.I. Lenin
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Jordan Nicholson
Saturday, September 10, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Chapter 2 of "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by V.I. Lenin
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
Saturday, August 6, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Chapter 5 of "State and Revolution" by V.I. Lenin
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Andrea Egypt
Saturday, July 30, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Chapter 1 of "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by V.I. Lenin
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
Saturday, July 9, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Chapter 4 of "State and Revolution" by V.I. Lenin
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Andrea Egypt
Saturday, June 18, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Continue Chapter 1 of "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," by Walter Rodney
http://www.blackherbals.com/walter_rodney.pdf
WWP Discussion Leader: Tashi Kiya
Saturday, June 4, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Chapter 3 of "State and Revolution" by V.I. Lenin
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Andrea Egypt
Saturday, May 21, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Chapter 1, sec. 2 of "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," by Walter Rodney
http://www.blackherbals.com/walter_rodney.pdf
WWP Discussion Leader: Tashi Kiya
Saturday, May 14, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels - part 3
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
WWP Discussion Leader: Debbie Johnson
Saturday, May 7, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY FORUM
How the Banks Destroyed Detroit
http://www.workers.org/2011/us/banks_destroyed_detroit_0407/
Saturday, April 30, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
Community Forum hosted by MECAWI
Stop the U.S. / NATO War Against Libya! U.S. Out of Africa and the Middle East!
Join Detroit area organizations and leaders speaking out against this war. Learn about the history of Libya and the real reasons United States imperialism is trying to destroy its government. Initiated by the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (www.mecawi.org). For more information call: 313-680-5508
Saturday, April 16, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
NATIONAL ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION IN NYC
No meeting
Saturday, April 9, 2011
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Chapter 1 of "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," by Walter Rodney
http://www.blackherbals.com/walter_rodney.pdf
WWP Discussion Leader: Tashi Kiya
Saturday, April 2, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Part III: Black Labor From Chattel Slavery To Wage Slavery, from Hi Tech, Low Pay by Sam Marcy
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/samtech/hitkhtml/chap5.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
Saturday, March 26, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Chapter 2 of "State and Revolution" by V.I. Lenin
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Andrea Egypt
Saturday, March 19, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY FORUM
Celebrate International Women's Month 2011
From Cairo to Madison... WOMEN FIGHT BACK!
Saturday, March 12, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
Special Guest Speaker
Monica Moorehead on "Women and the Global Capitalist Crisis"
Monica Moorehead is a longtime revolutionary activist and a national leader of Workers World Party. She is an organizer for the Women's Fightback Network in New York City and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper.
Plus
- Women on the front lines in Wisconsin labor battle
- Women in uprisings in North Africa and the Arab world
- Why young women should fight for socialism
WORKERS WORLD PARTY FORUM
Black History Month Forum
Honoring of Mr. Patrice Lumumba, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who was killed by U.S. imperialism's agents 50 years ago on January 17, 1961
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"State and Revolution" by V.I. Lenin
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Andrea Egypt
Saturday, February 19, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"Marxism & Insurrection"
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/sep/13.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: David Sole
Saturday, February 12, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY FORUM
Revolutionary Upsurge in North Africa: Egypt, Tunisia, Whose Next?
Saturday, February 5, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
"The Principles of Communism" by Frederick Engels
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Tashi Kiya
Saturday, January 29, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Part II: Black Labor From Chattel Slavery To Wage Slavery, from Hi Tech, Low Pay by Sam Marcy
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/samtech/hitkhtml/chap5.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Part II: Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Frederick Engels
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Martha Grevatt
Saturday, January 8, 2011, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
40th ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF DETROIT WORKERS WORLD PARTY, 1970-2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010, 5 P.M.
5920 Second Ave., Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
Forty years ago, the Detroit Branch of Workers World Party was founded. Come to the 40th anniversary celebration dinner. See and hear about the legacy of struggle - the fight against the war and racism, community organizing, union battles and more - that Detroit Workers World has organized and contributed to (and which continues today).
In addition to dinner, there will be speakers, photo boards, and a power point presentation.
Tickets for the dinner are $10. Please call 313-680-5508 to reserve a ticket.
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Saturday, December 4, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
Black Labor From Chattel Slavery To Wage Slavery, from Hi Tech, Low Pay by Sam Marcy
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASS
Saturday, November 20, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels - part 2
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
WWP Discussion Leader: Debbie Johnson
WORKERS WORLD PARTY CONFERENCE
http://www.workersworld.net/
Nov. 12-14, New York City
Rides are available to the conference from Detroit. If you are interested in attending the conference, please call 313-459-0777 right away.
EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION: MUMIA MUST NOT DIE!
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 4:30 PM
Federal Courthouse
231 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit
Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent. He’s spent over 28 years on death row after being unjustly convicted. Mumia was framed because he exposed police brutality as a radio journalist and for helping to found the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969.
The real criminals are the FBI and cops, who bombed the MOVE house on May 13, 1985, burning to death six adults and five children. The MOVE 9 are innocent political prisoners who must be released.
A “Tea Party” majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has virtually ordered the Federal Appeals Court to reinstate Mumia’s death sentence. Don’t let the bigots lynch Mumia Abu-Jamal. Show the Federal Appeals Court that we demand justice. Mumia must not die!
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2010 WORKERS WORLD PARTY DETROIT BRANCH CLASSES
These classes will help you prepare for the Workers World Party Conference, Nov. 12-14, New York City Rides are available to the conference from Detroit. If you are interested in attending the conference, please call 313-459-0777 right away.
Saturday, November 6, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Frederick Engels
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Martha Grevatt
Saturday, October 30, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination by V.I. Lenin
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/index.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Abayomi Azikiwe
Saturday, October 23, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels - part 1
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
WWP Discussion Leader: Debbie Johnson
Saturday, October 9, 5 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by V.I. Lenin'
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
WWP Discussion Leader: Tashi Kiya
WORKERS WORLD PARTY MIDWEST CONFERENCE
Saturday, September 18, 2010
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
DOORS OPEN AT 10 A.M. for REGISTRATION AND LIGHT BREAKFAST / PROGRAM WILL START PROMPTLY AT 11 A.M.
United Electrical Workers Union Hall, 37 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago
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Capitalism is Killing the People & the Planet!
Attention Workers, including Immigrants, Unemployed,Youth and Students …
If you are interested in abolishing a profit-hungry system that is:
- Throwing people out of work and their homes
- Closing schools and hospitals
- Denying universal health care
- Bailing out banks
- Jailing the poor and youth
- Terrorizing immigrants with raids and deportations
- Waging & supporting endless war and occupation
- Racially profiling Black people, Latinos/as, Arabs & all people of color
- Destroying the environment with global warming and oil spills
- Denying full rights and equality to women; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people; and people with disabilities
Then attend this conference and discussion on:
- What is Socialism?
- How we can fight for a future where people come before profits, racism and war.
Panelists Include:
- Larry Holmes – Founder, Bail Out the People Movement and a national leader of Workers World Party
- Julie Fry – National organizer, Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) – revolutionary youth group
- Armando Robles –United Electrical Workers Union, leader of the Chicago Republic Workers factory occupation
- Sara Flounders – Co-Coordinator, International Action Center, New York
- Abayomi Azikiwe – Editor, Pan-African News Wire, Detroit
- Teresa Gutierrez – May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, New York
- Jill Hill – Long-time Chicago activist and former Weatherwoman
- Representative of Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shutoffs, Detroit
- Joe Iosbaker – Freedom Road Socialist Organization
- Larry Hales – Organizer, October 7 National Day to Defend Public Education
- Martha Grevatt – Long-time UAW auto-worker activist and former Natl. Secretary of Pride At Work
Bring your ideas and questions – Report on your struggles
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
WORKERS WORLD PARTY Chicago: 312-229-0161 Detroit: 313-680-5508 Cleveland: 216-531-4004
Email:chicago@workers.org or detroit@workers.org
Visit: www.workers.org www.workersworld.net
WORKERS WORLD PARTY PUBLIC FORUM
WHAT the ‘economic crisis’ MEANS FOR WORKERS & THE EVER-GROWING POOR …
… and strategizing a working-class fightback
Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit
Just north of Wayne State University and I-94, one block west of Cass, at Antoinette
Dinner at 5:00; program and discussion starts at 6:00
(Small donation requested if you have it, but no one turned away)
Call 313-680-5508 for more information.
with special guest speaker - FRED GOLDSTEIN, Author of ‘LOW WAGE CAPITALISM’
Come and discuss the character of low-wage capitalism and how the corporations are getting richer while the working class (including the unemployed) gets poorer and poorer. What do high unemployment; lowered wages; reduced or no medical benefits; state and city budget cuts; anti-immigrant raids and laws; school closings; attacks on unions; racism and bigotry; and a soaring Pentagon budget have in common? How can workers and the poor, students and youth, organize to fight back and guarantee our right to a job, housing, health care, education and all the other necessities of life? Hear and discuss a revolutionary Marxist perspective by Fred Goldstein, a national leader of Workers World Party and author of the groundbreaking book “Low-Wage Capitalism: Colossus With Feet of Clay.”
Workers World Public Meeting
The Revolutionary Tradition of Black August: Honoring the Legacy of Resistance in the African American Liberation Struggle From 1619-2010
Date: Sat., August 7, 2010, 5:00-7:30pm
Location: 5920 Second Ave. at Antoinette, North of WSU Campus
Speakers: On Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson and a History of Struggle
Contact: 313.671.3715
What Is Black August?
The Black August tradition was established during the 1970's in the California prison system by men and women of the Black/Afrikan Liberation Movement as a means of acknowledging and studying the legacy of Afrikan resistance in the Americas and honoring fallen freedom fighters like George and Jonathan Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, Williams Christmas and Fred Hampton.
August 1619 - Arrival of first African slaves in 13 colonies
August 21, 1791 - Haiti slave uprising for independence
August 30, 1800 - Gabriel Prosser's slave revolt discovered
August 21, 1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion
August 1850 - Underground Railroad
August 17, 1887 - Birth of Marcus Garvey
August 24, 1943 - Birth of Russell "Maroon" Shoatz
August 30, 1948 - Birth of Fred Hampton
August 8, 1949 - Birth of Dr. Mutulu Shakur
August 1963 - March on Washington
August 1965 - Watts Rebellion
August 25, 1967 - FBI circulates internal order to "disrupt" Black Liberation groups
August 7, 1970 - Courthouse Slave Rebellion
August 18, 1971 - Capital of Republic of New Afrika attacked by FBI and police
August 21, 1971 - Assassination of George Jackson
August 28, 1971 - Jalil Muntaqim and Nuh Washington captured
August 8, 1978 - Police raid on MOVE
August 7, 1995 - Mumia Abu-Jamal granted stay of execution
Note: This event is open to the general public. Dinner will be served and donations are welcome.
Reports will be given on the upcoming demonstrations on Aug. 28 in Detroit, Oct. 2 in Washington and the National Day of Action to Defend Education on Oct. 7.
