ICC public forums in the USA, July/August 2010

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The International Communist Current is holding a series of public forums across the USA this summer. Comrades from all political persuasions are welcome to take the opportunity to meet and discuss the following topics:


What are the lessons of the student movement in France, 2006?
Thursday July 29th, 7pm
Southern California Library, 6120 S. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90044 (Venue to be confirmed)


Sunday August 1st, 2pm
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94609-111

Lessons from the Tekel struggle in Turkey: How to struggle from below?
Saturday August 7th, 4.30pm
The A-Space Anarchist Community Space, 4722 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19143

Against the ‘medicine’ of austerity, the class struggle!
Friday August 13th, 7pm
TRS Suites, 11th Floor, 44 East 32nd Street
New York, NY 10016
(Nearest Subway No. 6 train, 33rd St station).


Each forum will have a presentation from the ICC followed by several hours of open discussion. The ICC's press and publications will also be on sale. For further information see the ICC's website (http://en.internationalism.org/) or e-mail usa @ internationalism.org

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details & promo for Philly event

ICC Public Meeting:
Lessons of the Tekel workers’ struggle in Turkey:
How to struggle from below?
Last winter, workers in the state-owned tobacco enterprise in Turkey (TEKEL) were presented with a new law called 4-C which was to include a massive pay-cut and loss of all benefits, and reduce the workers to little more than indentured servants. In the face of all this, a mass movement throughout the whole country, led by the Tekel workers, for a nation-wide general strike to against the new law (which is planned for more government employees in the future) began to form. Workers from all over the country traveled to the capital to demonstrate, sent letters to other workers under attack, and even occupied the national union headquarters when it became clear that the union was only trying to slow the struggle down and secure the workers’ acquiescence. After four months of struggle, the movement was eventually defeated and the workers dispersed, but there are still many lessons from this struggle to be discussed and understood better. How can workers stand up to the bosses, the state, and the unions, overcome divisions imposed on them, push for the solidarity of the whole working class, and spread their struggle? The Tekel struggle has demonstrated the way forward for the working class and also shown that despite what the ruling class would hope, workers’ struggles have the potential not only to spread and push back the bosses, but to build to the point where they can get rid of the
whole system of exploitation, and build a truly human society.
http://en.internationalism.org/files/en/images/2010TekelTurkey.jpg

When:
August 7, 2010 (Saturday)
4:30-7:30

Where:
A-Space
4722 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Presentation from the ICC followed by several hours of open discussion.
All welcome!

http://www.internationalism.org
International Communist Current