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Audio of Professor Jason W. Moore's talk at the 2021 Real Abstractions web conference, hosted by Foreign Objekt.

In this talk, Jason W. Moore argues that Man and Nature – operationalized through successive Christianizing, Civilizing, and Developmentalist Projects – are ruling abstractions constitutive of the capitalist world-ecology. In this light, Man and Nature are not only fundamental epistemological categories, but also instruments of bourgeois hegemony on a world-scale. (Hence, successive world hegemonies shape and are shaped by successive Civilizing Projects, with distinctive renderings of Man and Nature.) In this light, civilizational fetishism – embodying an ethos of planetary management – appears as the logical and historical precondition for commodity fetishism, not least through the Naturalization of imperialism, racism, and sexism, beginning in the long sixteenth century. Giving special attention to the post-1968 New Environmental Imaginary, Moore shows how the ruling abstraction Nature has been pivotal to the success of neoliberal rule and the climate crisis.

Link to the conference page: https://www.foreignobjekt.com/real-abstraction--the-conference

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Daniel Hale is facing sentencing on July 27, 2021 that could bring him 10 years in federal prison after he pled guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act for releasing government documents that revealed the gross human rights violations and war crimes of the U.S. killer drone program.

More information on Daniel's case can be found at Stand with Daniel Hale: https://standwithdanielhale.org/

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Audio from a webinar organized by Worker’s World Party: workers.org

Statement from Worker’s World Party:

As the Communist Party of China approaches its 100th anniversary, Workers World Party looks to the CPC's accomplishments: eliminating absolute poverty for 800 million people, leading the world in pandemic response and vaccine distribution, and supporting the construction of 21st century infrastructure through its Belt and Road Initiative.

Join WWP members Makasi Motema, Sara Flounders, Joshua Hanks, and Ted Kelly for a roundtable discussion on how the CPC was able to achieve these accomplishments – and why the US empire is so threatened by the success of socialist revolution.

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Audio from a webinar organized by No Cold War Britain: nocoldwar.org

From the Organizers: Join a range of high-profile speakers at the launch meeting of the No Cold War Britain campaign. This event comes as Britain sends its largest ever warship to the South China Sea in a deliberately aggressive and provocative move.

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Audio from a webinar organized by U.S. Peace Council: https://uspeacecouncil.org/

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At the end of the 18th century, two profound political processes unfolded. One, in 1776, led to the formation of the USA, which went on to dominate the African Slave Trade. The other, ignited in 1791, led to the Haitian Revolution, which precipitated a general crisis of the entire slave system that could be resolved only with its collapse — not least in the U.S. itself in 1865. Unfortunately, those who feasted on free labor have not forgotten and will never forgive Haiti, including today when the USA, Canada and the European Union (especially France) continue to interfere maliciously in Haiti's internal affairs.

Moderator: Henry Lowendorf

Speakers:

Professor Gerald Horne, University of Houston

Professor Jemima Pierre, University of California Los Angeles

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This event was organized by Stand with Assange NY and the Assange Defense Committee and was held at the People's Forum in NYC on June 10, 2021.

Speakers:

Patricia Dahl, Jocelyn Gay, Randy Credico, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Roger Waters, Gabriel Shipton, John Shipton

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Audio from a webinar convened by the International Action Center: iacenter.org

A delegation from the International #FreeAlexSaab Solidarity Committee traveled to Cabo Verde attempting to meet with Alex Saab, who is imprisoned on orders from the U.S, and to document the conditions of his confinement and demand his release.

Bishop Filipe Teixeira OFSJC, from Cabo Verde community in Boston

Sara Flounders, International Action Center

Roger Harris, Task Force on the Americas

Moderator: Ted Kelly, Philadelphia branch of the Worker World Party

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Audio from a webinar produced by the International Action Center (IAC): iacenter.org

On May 26, 2021 14 million Syrians voted in Presidential elections, overwhelmingly reelecting President Bashar al-Assad. An independent, international delegation of observers called the election "the legitimate, democratic expression of the Syrian people" and noted that "for many Syrians, the election represents the imminent ending of the war, the defeat of foreign plots, and hope for the future."

Join 4 participants from the delegation for an eyewitness account of the situation in Syria as the country continues to push back U.S. intervention, reassert its sovereignty, and rebuild after years of imperialist war.

Panelists:

Johnny Achi, E.E.

Kobi Guillory

Wyatt Miller

Ted Kelly

Hosted by Scott Williams 

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A talk by Ike Nahem at the People's Forum in NYC

Audio from a 3-part video produced by Joe Friendly: https://youtu.be/CZwprN4zvVU

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A webinar sponsored by Workers World Party, featuring WWP First Secretary Larry Holmes : www.workers.org

The past few weeks have seen the extraordinary resistance of the Palestinian people against Zionist occupation and genocide greeted by an unprecedented outpouring of global solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. In addition to mass demonstrations, and rockets fired in response to Zionist bombings in Gaza, Palestinians organized a general strike on May 18, 2021.

Thousands of miles away in Bessemer, AL, Amazon workers experienced a temporary setback when a vote to unionize was defeated after Amazon employed outrageous union-busting tactics. Despite the setback, workers continue to organize in Bessemer, and the outcome of the vote is being challenged at the NLRB in response to Amazon's manipulations. Amazon workers are also organizing elsewhere across the country, including in Staten Island, NY.

What is the relationship between these developments? What do they signify for the development or global resistance of working and oppressed people against the ruling class? Join a conversation with Workers World Party 1st Secretary Larry Holmes this as we explore these questions