June 2nd through June 4th saw the annual reconvening of the Left Forum. This years event was titled “The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia.” The event was held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York in New York City. This event is the largest annual gathering in North America of the US and internationalist left. Between four and five thousand persons were in attendance. The attendees represented a broad perspective of experiences including but not limited to academics, activists and intellectuals.

Open University of the Left filmed eight sessions, presented on YouTube, below.

https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenUnivoftheLeft

Short URL: https://goo.gl/rrMCwP
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Individual presentations:

Peggy Terry and the Original Rainbow Coalition, Jakobi Williams, Indiana University, Hy Thurman, Young Patriots Organization, Melody James, Actor, Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture, Global Women’s Strike, James Tracy, City College of San Francisco
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Gramsci’s Importance for the Left Today, Laura Flanders, Chair, The Laura Flanders Show, Chris Hedges, Truthdig, On Contact RT, Richard D. Wolff, Democracy at Work; Left Forum, Kate Crehan, College of Staten Island, Graduate Center, CUNY
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Understanding Our Resistance, Nellie Bailey, Chair, Black Agenda Report, Anthony Montiero, Black Agenda Report, Glen Ford, Executive Editor Black Agenda Report
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Rethinking Revolution, Greg Albo, Chair, York University, Leo Panitch, Socialist Register, August Nimtz, University of Minnesota, David Schwartzman, Howard University, Pierre Beaudet, University of Ottawa
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J is for JUNK ECONOMICS: and it’s Worst Sin is… Three Answers, Michael Perelman, Chair, California State University, Chino, Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends, Bertell Ollman, NYU
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The Continuing Relevance of Marx’s Capital after 150 Years, Immanuel Ness, Chair, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Abhinav Sinha, Mazdoor Bigul, Michael Hudson, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Juliet Ucelli, Marxist Education Project, Ben Becker, Party for Socialism and Liberation
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The Long Depression – a critique of a book by Michael Roberts, Michael Roberts, Chair, not affiliated, Jose Tapia, Drexel University, Paul Mattick, not affiliated
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This past weekend, June 2nd through June 4th saw the annual reconvening of the Left Forum. This years event was titled “The Resistance: Strategy, Tactics, Struggles, Solidarity, and Utopia.” As it has been for the past four years, the event was held again at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York in New York City. This event is billed and rightfully so, as the largest annual gathering in North America of the US and internationalist left. As in past years, somewhere between probably four and five thousand persons were in attendance. As always the attendees represented a broad perspective of experiences including but not limited to academics, activists and intellectuals.

Already posted on our YouTube channel for your consideration you will find seven separate session events plus an opening program from this years Left Forum.

https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenUnivoftheLeft?&ytbChannel=OpenUnivoftheLeft

Short URL: https://goo.gl/rrMCwP

These sessions cover a broad range of topics. Of particular historic interest for many Chicagoans is a program titled “Bob Lee, Peggy Terry, and the Original Rainbow Coalition” which covers organizing efforts conducted in the late sixties through the early seventies in Chicago in Uptown, that lead to the creation of a unique multi-racial organization that was (the Original Rainbow Coalition). While it did not last, it included at the time the Black Panthers Party, the Young Lords and the Young Patriots. The militant newspaper Rising Up Angry was also a product of this radical political ferment. As has been said many times before, you can always learn things from the past.

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