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Information session for organizers of the May 1, 2008 International Workers’ Day demonstration in Chicago, held on April 23, 2008 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Co-sponsored by the Students for a Democratic Society and the Platypus Affiliated Society.

Audio Recording

Panelists

Tania Unzueta, May 1st Youth

Jorge Mujica, Movimiento 10 de Marzo

Shaun Harkin, International Socialist Organization

A NEW CHAPTER OF STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (SDS) was formed in February at the University of Chicago (UChicago) in tandem with chapters forming throughout the city and across the country. The new SDS is a national student organization dedicated to progressive political change, whose name was borrowed from the famous New Left organization that helped to shape the social unrest of the 1960s. UChicago SDS held a film screening and discussion in Harper Memorial Library on Thursday, March 6, of Columbia Revolt (1969), a documentary film by the Newsreel collective on the Columbia University student occupation and strike. [Read More]

However difficult the task of grasping and confronting global capital might be, it is crucially important that a global internationalism be recovered and reformulated… The Left should be very careful about constituting a form of politics that, from the standpoint of human emancipation, would be questionable, at the very best, however many people it may rouse. —Moishe Postone, “History and Helplessness” (2006) A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on issues of global capital, imperialism and war, possibilities for progressive political opposition, and the problems and tasks for the Left in the post-Cold War and post-9/11 world raised by the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. [Read More]