WIL National School: June 13th and 14th in Minneapolis

The Workers International League is pleased to announce our first National School, to be held June 13th and 14th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. WIL members, supporters and sympathizers from around the country, as well as international visitors from the International Marxist Tendency will meet to discuss a wide variety of political, theoretical, and organizational questions including: The IMT and the World Revolution (with a focus on Trotsky’s Theory of the Permanent Revolution), The Economic Crisis, Obama and the Working Class, 75 Years Since the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike and the Labor Movement Today, the Paris Commune, The Struggle for Immigrant Workers’ Rights, History of the IMT / WIL in the USA, a Transitional Program for the Working Class, and more.

We will also be hosting a public event on the 50^th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, featuring Hands Off Venezuela International Secretary and regular presenter at the Havana Book Fair, Jorge Martin. See below for details. 

We invite those interested in learning more about the WIL and our 2009 National School to contact [email protected] for more information on registration (required), attendance fees, accommodation, possible partial scholarships, etc. Donations to help us prepare this school in order to educate a new generation of revolutionary Marxists are needed and appreciated.

Suggested reading list for those interested in learning more about the topics to be discussed:

The IMT and the World / Permanent Revolution

• Introduction to Alan Woods’ Venezuela book by Rob Sewell

• IMT Manifesto on the Crisis

• IMT 2008 World Perspectives Part 1 (Also: Part 2)

The Economic Crisis, Obama and the Working Class

• Welcome to the School of the Democrats by John Peterson

• Obama’s Election and the Working Class (Editorial for SA 43 )

• Obama and the Economic Crisis (Editorial for SA 44 )

• Can Obama Save Capitalism? (Editorial for SA 45 )

• U.S. Workers Under Attack (Editorial for SA 47 )

75 Years Since the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike and the Labor Movement Today

• How to Win Strikes? by Harry DeBoer (or order a copy)

• Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs (order a copy)

• From “Discussions with Trotsky”

The Paris Commune

• The Paris Commune of 1871 by Greg Oxley

• Chapter 3 of The State and Revolution by V.I. Lenin (or order Four Marxist Classics)

• Civil War in France by Karl Marx

The Struggle for Immigrant Workers’ Rights

• The Tasks of the Immigrant Workers’ Movement: For a Working Class Program! by Jose Bedia

• Only Pressure on the Streets Can Advance the Struggle of Immigrant Workers by Alex Gillis

• Undocumented Immigrants: ‘We are the Working Class of America’ by John Peterson

History of the IMT / WIL in the USA

• A Brief History of the International Marxist Tendency by IDOM

• Against Bureaucratic Centralism by IDOM

• History of British Trotskyism by Ted Grant (or order copy)

A Transitional Program for the Working Class

• We Need a Working Class Program for the Economic Crisis (Editorial for SA 46) and What the WIL Proposes

• The WIL’s Program

• The Transitional Program by Leon Trotsky (or order Four Marxist Classics)

50 Years of the Cuban Revolution
Lessons for Latin America
June 13 at 7:00 pm
Central Labor Union Council
312 Central Ave. SE. 2nd Floor

Sponsored by Hands Off Venezuela, the Workers International League, the MN Cuba Committee. For more information please contact [email protected] or call 651-373-7609.

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