We commemorate the 60th anniversary of the defeat of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba. We also discuss the first 100 days of the Biden administration.

We mark the centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the 50th anniversary of the Bangladeshi liberation struggle with audio recordings, presentations, and cultural performances. We discuss what Bangabandhu's legacy of fighting for peace and freedom means for our times with an international keynote panel of freedom fighters from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, including Professor Rehman Sobhan. 

This is Day 2 of a 2 Day event.

Day 2, April 25th, 2021

Panel - Single Garment of Destiny: A New World, Western Collapse and a Rising Asia

The international keynote panel discusses the possibilities for socialism and development in the context of the rise of Asia, and the need to complete the anti-colonial struggle as envisioned by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and W.E.B. Du Bois. 

Dr. Anthony Monteiro, world renowned W.E.B. Du Bois Scholar, organizer of Saturday Free School and veteran of the Black freedom struggle

Professor Prabhat Patnaik, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India and former vice-chairman of Kerala State Planning Board

Dr. Rehman Sobhan, economist, member of first Planning Commission of Bangladesh, head of the Centre for Policy Dialogue, veteran of Bangladeshi freedom struggle

We mark the centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the 50th anniversary of the Bangladeshi liberation struggle with audio recordings, presentations, and cultural performances. We discuss what Bangabandhu's legacy of fighting for peace and freedom means for our times with an international keynote panel of freedom fighters from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, including Professor Rehman Sobhan.

This is Day 1 of a 2 Day event.

Day 1, April 24th, 2021

Welcome, Reading of Mission Statement

Panel Discussion - The Struggle for Freedom of the Darker Nations: Bangabandhu and the Bandung Vision

Audio of Bangabandhu’s Acceptance of the Joliot Curie Award

Panel Discussion - Unity and Struggle: Systemic Crisis and Freedom for the American Poor

Musical Performances from South Asia and America, African American Freedom songs and Nazrul Sangeet

We commemorate Bangladesh and understand threats to World Peace

We commemorate the birth anniversary of Paul Robeson. We read from his essays on civilization and discuss their relevance for today.

We play a recording of Dr. Martin Luther King's April 4th, 1967 speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence." We then discuss its contemporary relevance.

Due to some technical difficulties, some pauses in the recording will be present. 

We begin with a summary and reading of short excerpts from the final chapter of Du Bois's Russia and America, World Peace. The PDF of this book can be downloaded at: https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b221-i082

We then proceed to a discussion of the NY Times' 1619 Project and other ideological trends in this moment.

We begin with a discussion of our upcoming event commemorating the life of Shaikh Mujibur Rahman, the liberation struggle for Bangladesh, and their significance for world peace. We then continue our discussion of W.E.B. Du Bois's unpublished work Russia and America. We read Chapter VI "The Witch Hunt" and read from pages 225 to 250 in the manuscript.

The PDF of this book can be downloaded here: https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b221-i082

We continue our discussion of W.E.B. Du Bois's unpublished work Russia and America. We continue Chapter Six, The Witch Hunt, and read from pages 202 to 227 in the manuscript. 

The PDF of this book can be downloaded here: https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b221-i082

This week we begin with some presentations on the upcoming International Women's Day 2021. We then continue our discussion of W.E.B. Du Bois's unpublished work Russia and America. We continue Chapter Five of Russia and America, The Reign of Roosevelt, and read from pages 176 to 202 in the manuscript.

The full PDF of Russia and America can be found here: https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b221-i082