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DESCRIPTION:OccupyForum presents…\n\nFascism: What It Is, and How to Fight It\n\nWith 
 Gerald Smith\n\nCapitalism is in trouble. Therefore, conditions are being 
 recreated that are nourishing a reborn fascist movement. This, in spite of 
 the fact that internationally,  the fascists were thoroughly defeated and 
 discredited by the end of World War II.\n\nHow is this possible? First, 
 after several generations, participants and witnesses to the struggle 
 against fascism have died. Secondly, Scientific Socialism has lost the 
 allegiance of the most politically active members of the working class 
 internationally. Faced with declining profit levels in the sixties and 
 seventies, the ruling class has pursued a variety of strategies to enhance 
 its share of national income, including exporting industrial production to 
 less developed countries, which in turn undermines the bargaining power of 
 the most organized\nsections of the working class.\n\nIn tandem with this, 
 many of the most advanced capitalist states either overtly (Brasero program 
 in the U.S., Gastarbeiters in Germany, etc.) or covertly (destabilization 
 of third world countries and purposely lax enforcement of border controls, 
 etc.) encouraged mass immigration of poorly paid and legally precarious 
 workers from less developed regions, and bureaucratically distorted 
 state-owned economies. This in turn feeds resentment of increasingly 
 beleaguered sections of the working-class, often providing a fertile 
 recruiting ground for neo-fascists.\n\nBefore a serious reactionary trend 
 can be successfully eliminated, it is necessary to understand the 
 phenomenon: its origins, its essence, its mutations.\n\nGerald Smith has a 
 long history in the Black Liberation and Workers’ movements.  He is 
 currently involved with the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia, Liberated 
 Lense, and the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality.\n\n\nTime 
 will be allotted for Q&A, discussion and announcements.\nDonations to 
 Occupy Forum to cover costs are encouraged; no one turned away! \n\nMonday, 
 March 7th from 6 - 9 pm at Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street near the 
 16th Street BART station\nInformation, discussion & community! Monday Night 
 Forum!!\n\nOccupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful 
 dialogue\non all sides of these critically important issues!\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/11/18783903.php
SUMMARY:OccupyForum // Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street at 16th Street near BART\n2nd floor
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/11/18783903.php
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