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Calendar

Calendar

Oct
30
Wed
IYSSE weekly educational meeting: Results and Prospects @ 223 Wheeler Hall
Oct 30 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am

This week we are reading Results and Prospects, Leon Trotsky’s groundbreaking 1906 work. Results and Prospects explains the political implications of Russia’s particular course of historical development, with a feudal autocracy grafted on top of a rapidly growing industrial base owned by foreign investors. Through this historical analysis, Trotsky lays out, with striking accuracy, a prediction of the revolutionary role the working class would come to play, and the tasks ahead for the instigation of a global socialist transition after the proletariat had seized power in Russia.

In the wake of the 1905 revolutionary upsurge in the Russian Empire, serious questions faced the global socialist movement. The Russian working class had proved itself as the leading revolutionary force against the Tsarist autocracy, while the bourgeois democratic movement the Mensheviks and others expected to replace the Tsar had failed to substantively materialize. Why had this happened? What was the way forward, in Russia and in the rest of the world? These are the questions Trotsky seeks to answer in Results and Prospects.

Here is a link to a PDF that contains both Results and Prospects and Permanent Revolution, which fleshes out many ideas put forward in R&Phttps://www.dropbox.com/s/iho8sj7au67odh9/LDTPermRev121104_2.pdf

Nov
13
Wed
IYSSE weekly educational meeting: The Transitional Program @ 223 Wheeler Hall
Nov 13 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

The Transitional Program, authored by Leon Trotsky in 1938, clearly laid the theoretical groundwork for the construction of a mass socialist party in the US. Trotsky proposes a set of concrete transitional demands, such as the expropriation of super-wealthy individuals, and the creation of independent factory committees, while explaining that the uncompromising struggle to achieve these demands will inevitably lead the working class to fight independently for political power.

Although much has changed since the outbreak of WWII, many of the basic points laid out in the transitional program are just as relevant today as they were then. We hope to see you there.

Here is a link to the text:https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/10/prog-o21.html

Nov
15
Fri
“Tsar to Lenin” Screening @ 60 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley
Nov 15 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

“Tsar to Lenin” is the only documentary film comprised entirely of actual film footage from the Russian Revolution, and the periods immediately before and after. This extraordinary footage was compiled by Herman Axelbank, who spent years traveling through Eastern Europe, gathering it using any means at his disposal. Released in 1937, at the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, in which the bulk of the Soviet revolutionary generation was physically exterminated, the film received a warm reception from critics, but was quickly suppressed by the Stalinist Communist Party in the US.

Narrated by Max Eastman, sometimes known as the first American Trotskyist, this film is required viewing  for anyone trying to understand the historical significance of Russian Revolution, and its implications in the present period.

You can watch the preview at: http://tsartolenin.com/

Nov
20
Wed
IYSSE weekly educational meeting @ 223 Wheeler Hall
Nov 20 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

We invite you to join us for a weekly discussion of pressing current topics and equally pressing lessons from classic Marxist historical and theoretical works.

Dec
11
Wed
IYSSE weekly educational meeting: Tensions in the East China Sea and the US Pivot to Asia @ 223 Wheeler Hall
Dec 11 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

We will be discussing the escalating tensions in the East China Sea since the establishment of China’s Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in late November.

By proclaiming an ADIZ that contains the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, also claimed by Japan, and a submerged rock claimed by South Korea, China has played right  into Washington’s hands. Through its military and diplomatic “Pivot to Asia”, US imperialism is playing a reckless game of chicken in the East China Sea and elsewhere in an attempt to use its residual military supremacy to offset its China’s economic ascendency amid the US terminal economic decline. The result is eerily similar to the European powder keg in 1913, stoked by tensions between a declining Britain and an ascendant Germany  in 1913.

Please read the following articles for background knowledge on the developments:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/25/chin-n25.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/29/adiz-n29.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/05/adiz-d05.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/06/wolf-d06.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/06/bide-d06.html

Jan
30
Thu
Foundations of Classical Marxism @ 225 Wheeler Hall
Jan 30 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.

For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986

Feb
6
Thu
Foundations of Classical Marxism @ 225 Wheeler Hall
Feb 6 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.

For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986

Feb
13
Thu
Foundations of Classical Marxism @ 225 Wheeler Hall
Feb 13 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.

For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986

Feb
20
Thu
Foundations of Classical Marxism @ 225 Wheeler Hall
Feb 20 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.

For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986

Feb
27
Thu
Foundations of Classical Marxism @ 225 Wheeler Hall
Feb 27 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

In this weekly course, we study foundational Marxist works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, as well as contemporary works by the International Committee of the Fourth International. From these groundbreaking works, we aim to draw powerful political lessons for the present day.

For more information, visit: http://www.decal.org/courses/2986