Doug Henwood
Doug Henwood edits the Left Business Observer and is the author of After the New Economy (New Press, 2004) and Wall Street: How It Works and For Whom . He also hosts Behind the News, broadcast on WBAI, New York. He is working on a book on America’s modern power elite.[1]
Henwood is married to Liza Featherstone.
For a Political, Prolific and Democratic DSA Editorial Board
In May 2023 Doug Henwood signed a resolution "For a Political, Prolific and Democratic DSA Editorial Board" as one of the MUG and R&R's Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention in August in Chicago.
Socialist Scholars Conference 1990
The Socialist Scholars Conference 1990, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:[2]
Collapse of the Financial System
- Sponsor: Monthly Review
- Harry Magdoff, Monthly Review
- Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
- Janet Bush, London Financial Times
- Bill Tabb, Queens College
Socialist Scholars 1997
In March 28-30 1997 Democratic Socialists of America convened their annual Socialist Scholars Conference at Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York.
The conference was themed "Radical alternatives on the eve of the millenium".
Invitees were asked to join Doug Henwood, Robert Heilbroner, Paul Sweezy, Harry Magdoff, Bill Tabb, Frances Fox Piven, Robert Fitch, Jane Slaughter and Ellen Meiksins Wood "as they debate changes in the labor movement, Marxist theory, the state of the economy, market socialism, and other areas where theory and practice meet".
Or "listen to the United States' only independent and socialist congressman", Rep. Bernie Sanders, "dialogue with" Joel Rogers of the New Party and In These Times' ....Salim Muwakkil on independent politics..[3].
Communist "Manifestivity"
On October 30 and 31, 1998 the Brecht Forum presented the "Communist Manifestivity -150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto" at at Cooper Union's Great Hall, New York.
One of the many workshops at the Manifestivity was;
Today's Capitalist Crisis; with Dennis Brutus, Judy Claude, Sylvia Federici, Neftali Garcia, Joan Greenbaum, Doug Henwood and Boris Kagarlitsky. Moderator: Harry Magdoff.[4]
How Class Works
At the How Class Works - 2002 Conference, panels included; 2.6 Class and the Economy
- Paddy Quick, St.Francis College – Economics
“Class and Armed Robbery”
“Class and the Changing Distributions of Income and Wealth”
- Doug Henwood, Editor, Left Business Observer
“Financial Markets: The Class Angle”
- Debra Dwyer, Chair, Stony Brook - Economics
4.2 The Capitalist Class
- Leslie Gates, SUNY at Binghamton – Sociology
“ Reintegrating Class Analysis into Globalization: The Formation of Mexico’s Internationalist Elite and the Fate of Mexican Unions”
- Paul J. Groncki, Financial Planner, NYC
“ Demographics of the Capitalist Class”
- Doug Henwood, Editor, Left Business Observer
“ Davos and More: A Global Ruling Class (in formation)”
- Michael Schwartz, Chair, Stony Brook – Sociology[5]
YDS conference
In February 2004, Young Democratic Socialists convened a "Life After Bush" conference at CUNY Graduate Center in new york.
Speakers were[6];
- Cornel West, Department of Religion, Princeton University; author of Race Matters and many other books; Honorary Chair of Democratic Socialists of America
- Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, the Graduate Center, CUNY; author of Poor People's Movements and many other works; Honorary Chair of Democratic Socialists of America
- Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer
- Steve Max, Director of Organizing and Training, Midwest Academy
- Leslie Cagan, National Coordindator, United for Peace and Justice
- Ian Williams, author of The U.N. for Beginners and a correspondent for In These Times and The Nation
- Bertha Lewis, Co-Chair, Working Families Party and Executive Director, New York ACORN
The Nation
In 2009 Doug Henwood was listed as a Contributing editor to The Nation[7].
Left Forum 2010
The 'PIIGS,' Baltics, and Hungary: Economic Crisis on the EU’s Internal Periphery:
- Left Business Observer
- Doug Henwood (Chair) - Editor, Left Business Observer; Contributing Editor, The Nation
- Jeffrey Sommers - Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Faculty and Curator of the Andre Gunder Frank Memorial Library)
- Mark Weisbrot - Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro - Geography, SUNY New Paltz; Co-Editor, Human Geography
- Michael Hudson (discussant)
Left Forum 2011
Post-Financial Crisis: Neoliberalism and the Global Economic Recovery:
- David Harvey, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center; Author, A Companion to Marx's Capital
- Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
- Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Left Labor Project Presents: What Happened? What Now?
Left Labor Project Presents: What Happened? What Now? Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 6 PM - 9 PM, 310 W 43rd St, New York.
A converastion with Bill Fletcher, Jr., international activist and co-author of Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice.
This event is Co-sponsored by: Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Committees of Correspondence Education Fund, Democratic Socialists of America, Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
Those invited included Doug Henwood.
DSA member
In 2019 Doug Henwood was a member of Brooklyn Democratic Socialists of America.[8]
References
- ↑ http://www.truthdig.com/doug_henwood
- ↑ Second Annual Socialist Scholars Conference program.
- ↑ http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/1997m03.d/msg00084.htm
- ↑ Mail Archive website: Communist Manifestivity Conference Schedule, Oct. 28, 1998
- ↑ How Class Works - 2002 Conference Schedule (accessed July 24 2010)
- ↑ http://www.dsausa.org/LatestNews/2004/nyc04.pdf
- ↑ http://www.thenation.com/about/masthead.mhtml
- ↑ [1]