top
Labor & Workers
Labor & Workers
Indybay
Indybay
Indybay
Regions
Indybay Regions North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area California United States International Americas Haiti Iraq Palestine Afghanistan
Topics
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature

Karl Marx's 200th Birthday

icss-fly-2018-05_06-marx-1.pdf_600_.jpg
Date:
Sunday, May 06, 2018
Time:
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Eugene E Ruyle
Email:
Phone:
510-332-3865
Location Details:
BPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

KARL MARX'S 200TH BIRTHDAY

We will celebrate the two hundredth birthday of Karl Marx (b. March 5, 1818) with discussion led by three volunteers who will share their views on the contemporary significance of Marx: Antonio Trossero, an Argentinian labor leader and political exile living in the Bay Area; Eugene Ruyle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Cal State Long Beach; and Raj Sahai, our ICSS member from India, and longtime Bay Area resident.

Sun, May 6, 2018 - 10:30am-12:30pm
6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)
Seating is limited, so plan to come early. We start promptly.
FREE - but hat will be passed for donations to NPML

About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
A weekly discussion series inspired by our respect for the work of Karl Marx and our belief that his work will remain as important for the class struggles of the future as they have been for the past.

For info or to subscribe to our weekly announcements,
Call Gene Ruyle at 510-332-3865 or email: cuyleruyle [at] mac.com
For our full schedule, go to icssmarx.org
Added to the calendar on Tue, May 1, 2018 10:23AM
§Event canceled
by Charles
One week prior to the event, it was discovered that one speaker (the Trotskyist) had published an anti-Semitic letter in the East Bay Express years ago. Believe it or not, there was reluctance to call him to account. Finally, he was asked whether he had an explanation. He stood by his reference to the "old Jewish-Stalinist guard." Yet the ICSS chief still decreed that this man would speak on a panel in celebration of Marx! Then, knowing that the issue could well come up at the event, the ICSS chief canceled it.

Comments (Hide Comments)
The crackpot that was invited to the ICSS is in no organization and has nothing to do with organized Trotskyism. He has not been invited to any Trotskyist events in the bay area or in the world but he was invited by the backers of Stalinist Grover Furr supporters Raj Saji and Eugene Ruyle despite the fact that he is a well known anti-semite and also is against immigrant workers saying that they are "scabs".
Furr defends the mass purges in the Soviet Union by Stalin argues that Trotsky was a Nazi agent. It is interesting but not surprising that Furr's supporters are now inviting an anti-Semite and anti-immigrant basher to their Marx event.
This character was also invited by the Peace and Freedom Party leadership to their Berkeley event even though they know as well his reactionary anti-semitic and anti-immigrant political positions. No other "Trotskyist" group in the world holds these positions.
The real question is why the Stalinist ICSS leadership would invite this individual to speak in the commemoration of Marx?



Sun, May 6, 2018: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Karl Marx’s 200th Birthday
We will celebrate the two hundredth birthday of Karl Marx (b. March 5, 1818) with discussion led by three volunteers who will share their views on the contemporary significance of Marx: Antonio Trossero, an Argentinian labor leader and political exile living in the Bay Area; Eugene Ruyle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Cal State Long Beach; and Raj Sahai, our ICSS member from India, and longtime Bay Area resident.
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$230.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network