Videos: Spring 2020 Webinars

Sparked by reaction to the racist police lynching of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, the uprising against police terror and the white supremacy it rests upon has moved consciousness to the left among the U.S. population at almost warp speed. Police brutality in all forms — but especially the murders of Black people — has been put on trial. And so has racism in general, past and present. …

Join Workers World Party and our allies as we discuss developments in this movement and the significance of Juneteenth. This webinar will pay homage to the ongoing fight for justice for victims of racist lynchings like Emmett Till, Armaud Abery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and those who lost their lives in the 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Okla., where the bigot Trump is scheduled to speak on June 20. The webinar will also be dedicated to the life and legacy of Delbert Africa from MOVE.

Speakers include:

• Trent Willis: President, Local 10 Int’l Longshore and Warehouse Union
• Larry Holmes: 1st Secretary, Workers World Party
• Ananya Sabharwal: Austin Branch, Workers World Party
• Isabella Ricks: Austin Branch, Workers World Party

The lynching of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota has provoked a global uprising. In just three weeks, millions of people have taken to the streets around the world to protest state-sponsored white supremacist violence. We cannot and must not go back to a world where killer cops can wage war on Black and Brown people with impunity. More than ever before in our lifetimes, the working class is uniting behind police abolition. No more military occupation of oppressed communities. No more harassment, humiliation, and surveillance. No more torture, kidnapping, brutality, and murder. In this Workers World Party webinar, we will hear from organizers around the country who explain why WE MUST ABOLISH THE POLICE!

Speakers include:

• Monica Moorehead: Managing Editor of Workers World newspaper; editor of Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle
• Megan Malachi: Organizer and educator with Philly REAL Justice and The Black Philly Radical Collective; proud native of Philadelphia
• Joshua Vincent: organizer and editor from Durham, NC

Uprisings against racist police murder have rocked the United States in the aftermath of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Tony McDade. What is the character of this rebellion? How can we defend it against repression and division? How do we build from rebellion to revolution?

Speakers include:

• Jess Sundin, a Minneapolis NAARPR Community Organizer
• Larry Holmes & Monica Moorehead, of Workers World
• Leighsandra & Queen Cheyenne of Greater Boston Marxist Association
• Scott Williams at the Stop the Police War on the People Rally in Philadelphia.

Progressive and Revolutionary Healthcare Workers & Community Organizers examine the path forward – through the pandemic – to a Socialist healthcare system!

Speakers include:

• Sofia Sepulveda: Co-lead organizer, Medicare for all March in San Antonio
• Mateos Chekol: Labor representative, National Nurses United in El Paso
• Brian Shea: Disability rights organizer, Workers World Party, Boston branch
• Taegan Stross: Emergency Medical Technician, Workers World Party, Central Texas branch
• mYia X: WWP member, Revolutionary Student, Cultural Archivist, Warrior Poet, Marxist, Comrade & Ally
• Njera Keith: Diaspora oriented, Black organizer with 400+1

Join Workers World Party for a special, extended webinar covering:

• COVID-19 and the current capitalist crisis
• Announcing a new book from WWP: What Road to Socialism?
• Who is the working class?
• The crucial role of the working class in overthrowing capitalism
• Why international solidarity against imperialism?: Defending socialist countries, the right of oppressed nations to self-determination & connecting the war at home to the war abroad
• What is fascism, & how do we fight it?
• The Science of Change: Dialectical Materialism
• Workers’ Resistance & Organization:
  Why We Need Workers’ Assemblies • Rent Strikes • Organizing retail and grocery workers • Health Care Workers • Mutual Aid • Union organizing • The Role of a Leninist Party & Leninist Newspaper

The US has imposed economic sanctions against 39 countries. In many cases, this denies them access to medicine and medical equipment as well as access to world markets for food and other necessities. During the coronavirus crisis the US, with the highest death count in the world, has upped the sanctions against countries like Iran and Venezuela, and has tried to weaponize COVID-19 to bring down governments that will not follow the dictates of Washington and Wall Street. The UN has asked that sanctions be loosened during this crisis but the US has done the opposite. Many US allies have broken with them and sent medical aid to some of these countries. Now is an important time for the people in the US to come out strongly against these sanctions, which are simply war by other means.

Speakers include:

• Cuba: Ana Silvia Rodriguez Abascal, Charge des Affaires of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations
• Zimbabwe: Dr. Frank Guni, Secretary for Administration, ZANU-PF North America (due to technical difficulties, presentation made by Omowale Clay)
• Nicaragua: Francisco O Campbell, Nicaraguan Ambassador to the U.S.
• Syria: Dr. Bashar Ja’afari, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations
• Venezuela: Carlos J. Ron Martinez, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Iran: Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Ambassador to the United Nations