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The rise of Donald Trump from billionaire blowhard and reality TV star to Republican candidate for U.S. president has shocked millions. But his appeal to disaffected voters on a platform of racism against immigrants, Mexicans, and Muslims tracks with right-wing populism in the US and other countries. This talk will grapple with how we can understand the Trump phenomenon, and how we can defeat it.

From Ferguson to Football: Race and Rebellion in Missouri

The hidden history of working class radicalism and its relationship to the fight against racism and the lessons for today.

Everyone from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump claims to represent the interests of that mercurial social category, the middle class. If we go by mainstream definitions, the middle class encapsulates everyone in between the impoverished and the 1%, a pretty broad (and useless) category. This talk will explore the question of the middle class from a Marxist perspective and sort out the contradictions, myths and realities of this much-discussed but under-analyzed social class.

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

The benefits of perfumed paper: A reading by Wallace Shawn

This talk will address Israel's global assault on civil liberties and the apartheid regime's wider attempts to neutralize the threat of the movement for Palestinian rights, with a special attention paid to the assault on campuses, taking Columbia University as an example.

Greece: The Left after SYRIZA

A discussion about Donald Trump, trumpism, lesser-evilism and strategies for the left.

Exploring the economic, political and social crises and resistance in Mexico.

In 2011, the old Arab order entered in agony, but a new progressive order could not replace it. Since then, the euphoria of the "Arab Spring" has given way to the gloom of backlash and descent into mayhem. The talk will analyse the factors behind this relapse and assess the regional prospects.

This talk will cover #Brexit, solidarity with refugees in the UK and beyond, the far-right and the left's response.

Hal Draper was the foremost American Marxist theoretician in the last half of the 20th century. He authored and popularized the concept of "socialism from below." Draper's major intellectual contribution was his multi-volume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, restoring the central core of Marx's politics as revolutionary working class democracy.

What is going on in Chavez's and Maduro's Venezuela and what does it mean for the left-wing cycle of the past 20 years in Latin America? This talk will explore the complex political situation in which Venezuela finds itself in as it relates to the overall crisis that the progressive cycle of left-leaning governments such as Dilma in Brazil, Evo Morales in Bolivia and Cristina Kirchner in Argentina is facing. Are we experiencing the end of this period more commonly known as the Pink Tide? How can we understand the current rightward shift in the region? Can the Venezuelan revolution survive?

We're All Precarious Now: The State of the Working Class in the U.S.