Come to MHI’s panel at Left Forum on Sun. June 4 in NYC

[Note added Jul. 6, 2017: A video of the panel and some of the papers are published here.]

Left Forum, the largest conference of left academics and activists in the U.S., will take place June 2-4 at John Jay College in NYC. MHI’s panel will discuss the causes, dangers and implications of those elements of the left that have been soft on Trump.

Confronting “Anti-Neoliberal Left” Collaboration

with Trumpism and the Far Right

Sunday, June 4

10:00 am–11:50 am, Room 1.87

Speakers:

Andrew Kliman, author of The Failure of Capitalist Production and Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital”

• The “Anti-Neoliberal Left” Narrative: Politically Dangerous and Factually Flawed

 

Brendan Cooney, blogs about Marx at http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/

• Should the Left Put Forward its Own Populism?

 

Bill Weinberg, journalist, author, activist, blogs world news at CounterVortex.org

• Is Trump Really a Fascist?

 

Anne Jaclard, Marxist-Humanist Initiative, activist

• A New Feminism Infuses the Resistance

 

Ravi Bali, London housing activist

• What to Avoid in our Criticism of Liberalism