‘Solution is Socialism’ conference draws students
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Ocialist Action educational conference drew close to cases of sexual violence in the African American and 100 participants, including students from at least six the Movimiento Independista Nacional Hostosiano in ism in Puerto Rico and the current fight against the eration has “grown up with constant war, with the U.S.-imposed austerity regime known as PROMESA. revelations of Snowden and Chelsea Manning, with a minimum wage that was never enough to live on, dance gathered with him to discuss the next steps in with huge student debt, and with the 2008 world building links between central Connecticut and the to the strategy and tactics of building a movement for socialism today. The first, led by Left Voice editor tion are ready to seize the tremendous opportunities Jose Cruz Ferre, a participant in the Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas and the Left and Workers ism, inequality, and the headless drive toward climate Front (FIT) in Argentina, explained how a rejection of lesser-evil politics in the national elections, and the ing the fossil fuel based profit system with something mounting of a united and independent working-class nity College at the way that capitalism has matured trality of racism to its operations. Professor Hannah complemented by presentations by representatives Holleman of Amherst College presented the statistics es’ parties, mobilizations based on a united front of that a number of Marxist thinkers have been using to rently on the stage. Alix Shabazz of Freedom Inc. in all tendencies in the working-class movement, and a Madison, Wis., described the thinking and process disciplined revolutionary political party. Their union that went into the development of the Movement for and mass movement experience allowed them to Black Lives Platform, a document that codifies the paint a clear picture of the way in which the modest ment would be unable to mount the kind of solidarity centrality of the fight for Black self-determination but growing cadres of the socialist movement could Final justice system that must be dismantled as part of the ways that capitalist work regimes created gender of the Youth for Socialist Action was established on identities useful for profit and production, the power the University of Connecticut campus and the basis of queer resistance to those regimes, and the way that tivists to find restorative justice alternatives to the laid for the regional collaboration of YSA members at an understanding of this dynamic will strengthen the destructive approach of the Madison police around NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—An ambitious Youth for So different colleges, to Central Connecticut State Uni versity on Saturday, Oct. 22.
The conference was opened by the past president of the CCSU YSA, David Kiely, who said that his gen market crash as a backdrop.”
“For our entire lives,” he said, “capitalism has been a complete disaster.” This conference was called, he ex plained, because it is clear that many of this genera made plain by the growing resistance to racism, sex catastrophe, to build a movement capable of replac entirely different.
The event opened with a historical look by Profes sor Charles Post of Borough of Manhattan Commu as a disastrous system in North America and the cen begin to develop a full theory of ecological imperial ism. She argued convincingly that without an under standing of imperialism, the climate justice move necessary to build the movement we need.
Dr. Alan Sears of Ryerson University spoke about fight for a socialist future.
of two of the most powerful social movements cur and encyclopedically lists elements of the racist crim the process.
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These historical and theoretical presentations were Shabazz related, as well, the efforts of Madison ac (Left) Prof. Hannah Holleman gave a strategic perspective for the climate justice movement.
Mikhal Rosa, a member of the national leadership of San Juan, P.R., spoke about the history of U.S. colonial Local Puerto Rico independence activists in atten The conference closed with two sessions devoted election campaign, led to the growth of the revolu tionary socialist movement in that country.
The day ended with a talks by three veteran social ist organizers—Christopher Hutchinson, Ann Mon tague, and Daniel Belle—on the historic working-class tools of political action independent of the boss make a real difference in the months and years ahead.
In the week after the conference, a new chapter CCSU, UConn, and the University of Massachusetts. n