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The 1990 Socialist Scholars Conference, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:^[1]

The World Wide Struggles for Democracy

Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Workers Party, Brazil
Ruben Zamora, The Democratic Convergence, El Salvador
Boris Kagarlitsky, Soviet Democratic Socialist Leader
Joseph S. Murphy, Chancellor, City University of New York
Daniel Singer, Author, Is Socialism Doomed?

Is Socialism a Real Alternative in the Third World

Sponsor: Monthly Review
Moderator: Paul M. Sweezy, Co Editor, Monthly Review
Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Workers Party, Brazil
Bill Hinton, author, The Great Reversal
Carlos Vilas, Author, The Socialism Revolution

Working Women and the Womens Movment

Moderator: Rosalyn Baxandall American Studies, SUNY Old Westbury
Barbara Garson, Author of the Electronic Sweatshop
Nancy Breen, Economics, Connecticut College
Nancy Stern, Esq., Attorney on the First Amendment Cases in the U.S.
Priscilla Murolo, History, Sarah Lawrence College

Black Politics in America

Maulana Karenga, University of California, Long Beach
Manning Marable, University of Colorado
Paulette Pierce, Queens College
Paul Robeson, Jr., Author, Journalist

The Nicaraguan Election In Perspective: Whither the Revolution

Sponsor: The Bildner Center
Moderator: Ronald G. Hellman, The Bildner Center; CUNY
Kenneth Sharpe, Political Science, Swarthmore
George Cikers, Sociology, Brooklyn College
Jack Hammond, Sociology, Hunter
Ingrid Herman, Costa Rican Mission to the U.N.
Pablo Gonzales Casanova, UNAM, Mexico

Reproductive Rights and the Role of the Sate at Home and Abroad

Sponsor: Democratic Socialists of America
Moderator: Barbara Ehrenreich, Democratic Socialists of America
Judith Lorber, Women's Studies Program, CUNY Grad Center
Vernice Miller, Center for Constitutional Rights
Andrea Miller, Chair, Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section
Slavenka Drakulic, Yugoslav author, feminist

Cross National Perspectives on Work, Welfare and the Poverty of Women

Sponsor: New Initiative for Full Employment

Moderator: Helen Ginsburg Economics, Brooklyn College

Gertrude S. Goldberg, Adelphi University, Paper - Canada/United States
June Axinn, University of University
Margarite Rosenthal, Salem State College
Eleanor Kremen, Adelphi University, Paper - Soviet Perspectives

New York City Fiscal Crisis, 1990: Dinkins and Labor

Sponsor: Labor Solidarity Network and Punch Out
Paul Bartlett, La Guardia College, CUNY and Punch Out
Ed Ott, Labor Laison, Mount Sinai Hospital
Penelope Pi-Sunyer, The City

U.S., South America: Union to Union Solidarity

John Hudson, Vice President for ACTWU
Nomonde Ngubo, South African trade unionist, representative to the United Mine Workers

"BBC Tribute to CLR James with Stuart Hall, Tariq Ali and Others" A Video and Roundtable

Paul Buhle

Connecting Present and Past: Archivists Historians Perspectives

Sponsor: Taminent Institute Library
Moderator: Peter Filardo, Taminent Library
Rob Snyder, Columbia University
Pauline Toole, Political Activist

Do the Right Thing Revisited

Sponsor: Cineaste
Moderator: Leonard Quart Film, College of Staten Island
Dan Georgakas, Editor, Cineaste
Herb Boyd, critic, National Guardian
William Mackey, Jr., Van Arsdale School of Labor Studies, Empire State College

Computer Systems: Social Construction and Employment Effects

Sponsor: Union for Radical Political Economics
Moderator: Paddy Quick, Economics, St. Francis College
Ron Baiman, A.T. & T, Market Analysis and Forecasting, Paper - The Impact of Microelectronics on Employment
Joan Greenbaum, Computer Science, LaGuardia College, Paper - The Head and the Heart: Gender Analysis

Tax Policy: The Biggest Shell Game of All

Sponsor: CUNY Branch, Democratic Socialists of America
Moderator: Nat Mills
Thomas Karier, Levy Economics Institute, Bard College
John Miller, Wheaton College
James Suarez, Manhattan College
Mary Wentworth, Citizens for Fair Taxes

Homelessness and the Right to Housing in New York

Sponsor: City Limits; News of the Other New York
Moderator: Doug Turetsky, Editor, City Limits
Chris Quinn, organizer, Housing Justice Campaign
Richard Rivera, attorney, Puerto Rican Defense and Education Fund
Jean Chappell, Parents on the Move, Brooklyn Arms Hotel

The Politics of Labor and Ecology

Sponsor: Capitalism, Socialism, Nature
Will Miller, Philosophy, University, of Vermont, Paper - Labor and Ecology
Nancy Anderson, NYC Environmental Policy Analyst, Paper - Hazards to Our Rights to Know

"War on Drugs" A Left Analysis

Sponsor: Against the Current
Cynthia Bowens, New African Voices Alliance
Michael Latwin, City Public Defender
Dolores Trevizo, Political Economy, UCLA

AIDS: International Perspectives

Sponsor: Social Text
Simon Watney, AIDS, activist
Cindy Patton, AIDS, activists

Dialectics of Revolution

Stephen Eric Bronner, Political Science, Rutgers University, Paper - Socialism and Revolution
Andrew Kilman, Economics, New York Institute of Technology, Paper - Restructured Capitalism/Alienated Labor
Douglas Kellner, Philosophy, University of Texas, Paper - Post-Modernism and Revolution
Kevin Anderson, Sociology, Northern Illinois University, Paper - Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism

Developments in the USSR and Eastern Europe and their Significance for Western Europe and the US Left

Sponsor: Frontline
Moderator: Phyllis Bennis, Correspondent; Frontline
Donald Sassoon, University of London
Irwin Silber, co-editor, Frontline
Joanne Barkan, Democratic Socialists of America

Conspiracy Theory

Sponsor: Social Text
Sol Yurick, Editor Social Text
Bill Schapp, Covert Action Information Bulletin
Carl Oglesby, writer, lecturer

Politics in the Classroom

Sponsor: Radical Teacher
Frinde Maher, Wheaton college
Leonard Vogt, La Gardia Community College, CUNY
Clare Damino, Freedom Prep

Labor and Employee Stock Ownership Plans

Moderator: Joe Blasi, Rutgers University, Board Northwest Steel
David Ellerman, Employee Ownership Services
Mike Locker, Industrial Cooperative Association
Adam Blumenthal, American Capital Strategies

Author Meets the Critics: Anders Stephanson

Sponsor: Social Text
Anders Stephanson, Author, Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy

The Future of Socialism in America

Barbara Ehrenreich, Democratic Socialists of Amercia
Manning Marable, University of Colorado
Irwin Sibler, Frontline
Bogdan Denitch, Sociology, CUNY, Graduate Center

Pantheon, Publishing and Corporate Censorship

Moderator: Leo Cawley, Interlocutor, WBAI Radio Station
Todd Gitlin, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
John Leonard, Columnist, Newsday
Jim Peck, former Senior Editor Pantheon

Central America and the Democratic Revolution

Sponsor: The Bildner Center and CUNY, Democratic Socialists of America
Paul Berman, Village Voice
Ingrid Herman, Costa Rican Mission
Ruben Zamora, Democratic Convergence El Salvador
Pablo Gonzales Casanova, UNAM, Mexico City

Intellectuals and the Cold War

Sponsor: New Politics
Moderator: Phyllis Jacobson, Co-Editor, New Politics
Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Steven Longstaff, New York University, Toronto
Alan Wald, University of Michigan
Denis MacShane, Deputy General Secretary, International Trades

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

Labor and Participatory Management

Andy Banks, Florida International University
John Russo, Youngstown State University
Guillermo Grenier, Florida State University

Opposing the CIA on Campus: A Workshop on Strategies and Tactics

Sponsor: Radical Philosophy Association
Moderator: Bill Schapp, Covert Action Information Bulletin
Phil Agee, former CIA Agent
Michael Howard, Philosophy, University of Maine, Orono
David McMichael, Former CIA Agent
Annette Funk Philosophy, Brooklyn College
Ami Chin Mills, The CIA on Campus: A Handbook for Activists
Phil Gaspar, Philosophy, Middlebury College

60s/90s: The Kids Are Allright

Sponsor : Social Text
Donna Gaines, Village Voice
William DiFazio, St. Johns University
Liegia DiFazio, SUNY at Buffalo
Kenya James, Harlem Writers Crew

Double Agents: The Graduate Student In the Class Room

Sponsor: Radical Teacher
Barbara Roseman, English, CUNY Graduate Teacher
Cheryl Fish, English, CUNY Graduate
Andrew Long, Art History, CUNY, Graduate Center

African-Americans and the Third World in 1992

Sponsor: New York Green Network
Salah Sawaz, Director, Palestine, Aid Society
Ron Daniels, Convenor of African-American Progressive Network
Larry Feiner, N.Y. Green Network Org. Committee
Yanique Joseph, N.Y. Green Network

Towards Adequate Health Services for All

Moderator: Nat Mills
Jerry Hudson, Exec Director, Local 1199 Health Care Campaign
Dr. Erick Larsen, New York Medical College
Lani Sanjek, NYS Health Service Campaign
Leonard Rodberg, Developer of National Health Care Legislation

Eco-Feminism, Panel Discussion

Sponsor: New York Marxist School
Martha Herbert, Writer and Medical Student
Ynestra King, A Founder, Woman Earth
Margo Adler, National Public Radio

Drawing the Line at Pittston. Film Production of Paper Tiger

Video with UMW strikers, Bo Booker, Joel Phillips

Is Democratic Socialism Possible in China?

Sponsor: Social Text
Caltian Yu, Harvard University
Zhao Jing Lun, journalist
Su Shao Zhi, Marquette University

Greeting 1990 with the Encyclopedia of the American Left. A Colloquium by a score plus of more than 200 contributors of the forthcoming The Encyclopedia of the American Left

Mari Jo Buhle, Brown University
Dan Georgakas, Empire State College
Paul Buhle, Taminent Library

Teaching In Prisons

Dan Schultz, Cayuga Community College, Auburn Correctional Facility
Regi Teasley, Keuka College, Elmira Correctional Facility

Drugs, Denial and American Culture

Sponsor: Social Text
David Forbes, Brooklyn Diocese, Abuse Prevention Program
Lynn Chancer, Barnard College
Michael Welch, St. Johns University

Discourse, Ethics and Intellectuals Life in Black

Sponsor: Radical Philosophers Association
Frank Kirkland, Hunter College, Paper - Modernity and Intellectual Life in Black
Maulane Karenga, California Sate University, Long Beach, Paper - Malcolm X and the Critique of Domination: Race, Class, Human, Dimensions
Cliff DuRand, Morgan State University; commentator
Eric Perkins, ETS, Princeton

The Alternative Press and the Left: How Can Alternative Papers Further the Goals and Visions of the Left?

Sponsor: Network of the Alternative Student Press
Archon Fong, The Thistle, M.I.T.
Raynard Davis, The SCAR News
Roz Payne, Former member, Newsreel

Leninism: Towards Rejection or Renewal

Sponsor: Fourth Internationalism Tendency and Solidarity
Moderator: Roy Rollins
Paul LeBlanc
Cliff Conner, Socialist Action
Marilyn Vogt-Downey
Paul Sigel, Socialist Action; Professor Emeritus, L.I.U.

Dynamics of the Crisis in the Soviet Type Environment

Behzad Yaghmaian, Economics, Stockton State College, Paper - Causes and Consequences of Soviet Economic Reforms

Raymond Lotta, Paper - Perestroika: Failure of Socialism or Crisis State Capitalism
Larry Everest, author, Soviet 'New Thinking' and the World Economy, Paper - Constraints and Contradictions of Empir
Susan Rezvani, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

Race and Class

Sponsor: New Politics
Moderator: Gertrude Ezorsky, editorial board, New Politics
Harold Cruse, Emeritus, Afro-American Studies, University of Michigan
Susanne MacGregor, Birkbeck College, London
Adolf Reed, Jr., Afro-American Studies, Yale
Stephen Steinberg, Queens College

Democratic Movements in Post-Communists Societies

Sponsor: Democratic Socialists of America
Mitchell Cohen, Politics Department, Baruch College
Andrew Arato, Author, The Young Lukacs
Joanne Landy, Campaign for Peace and Democracy/East & West
Alec Callinicos, SWP, Britain
Mitja Zagar, Slovene Marxist Center

The Democratic Party and Electoral Strategy for the Left

Sponsor: Democratic Socialists of America
Bernie Sanders, former mayor, Burlington, Vermont
Jim Schoch, former Democratic Socialists of America Director
Christine Riddiough, Democratic Socialists of America Vice Chair; former Director National Gay and Lesbian Clubs

Ecology, Debt Crisis and Global Green Politics

Sponsor: New York Green Network
Moderator: Yanique Joseph, New York Green Network
Richard Falk, Center for International Studies, Princeton
Larry Feiner, New York Green Network
Cheryl Payer, Author, The Debt Trap & The World Bank

The Economics of Perestroika

Sponsor: Science and Society
Moderator: David Laibman, Economics, Brooklyn College
Paul Robeson, Jr., author, lecturer
Lynn Turgeon, Economics, Hofstra University
Irwin Silber, Frontline

The Future of Socialism: Implications for Western Europe and the United States

Stanley Aronowitz CUNY Graduate Center
Anders Stephanson, Rutgers University
Carl Johnson, Sociology, CUNY

Paulo Freire's Empowering Education: Teaching for Critical Consciousness

Ira Shor, English, College of Staten Island

Politics of Western Medicine: Cancer, Aids and Poverty

Sponsor: New York Marxist School
Bob Lederer, ACT-UP, Committee on Alternative Treatment
Ralph Moss, Author, The Cancer Industry
Jaime Tessler, Central America Solidarity Health Activist

Political Change in Eastern Europe: A Roundtable Discussion

Sponsor: Science and Society
John Cammett, History, John Jay College, CUNY
Carl Bloice, Moscow correspondent, Peoples Daily World
Renate Bridenthal, History, Brooklyn College
Joan Ecklein, University of Massachusetts

Crisis or Bureaucratic Order: Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China; Restructuring from below

Sponsor: Against the Current
Susan Weisman, Editor, Critique and Against the Current
Kim Moody, Labor Notes, author, Decline of American Unionism
Jin Xiaochang, History of Sociology, New School
Richard Smith, author: Class Structure and Economic Development of China
David Mandel, University of Quebec, Montreal, Paper - New Workers Movement in the Soviet Union

International Labor Solidarity: Eastern Europe and Beyond

Sponsor: Labor Education Center, Rutgers University
Moderator: David Bensman, Labor Education Department, Rutgers University
Paul Garver, Labor Education Center, Rutgers University
Tony Mazzochi, AFSC commentator
Guillermo Grenier, Center for Labor Studies, Florida International University
Arthur Lipow, Birkbeck College, London

Democratization, Reaction, and the United States Role: The Cases of South Korea and the Philippines

Sponsor: Association for Philippines Information
Moderator: Hanna Lessinger, The Guardian
Nan Won Kim, Young Koreans United
J. V. Bautista, BAYAN representative
Boone Schirmer, Solidarity activist

The Marginalization of Africa

Sponsor: CUNY, Democratic Socialists of America
Moderator: Jim Mittleman, Queens College, CUNY
Nzongola Ntalaja, Howard University, African Studies
Berket Selassie, Howard University, Eritean Peoples Front

The New African-American Middle Class and the Struggle for Black Empowerment

Moderator: Sam Anderson, Network of Black Organizers
Amiri Baraka, Playwright, Poet, Activist
Abdul Alkalimat, Africana Studies, SUNY- Stony Brook
Basil Wilson, History, John Jay College, CUNY

Covert Action at Home and Abroad

Moderator: Valerie Van Isler, WBAI, Undercurrents
Phil Agee, author: Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Alan Glick, author: The War at Home
Elombe Brath, Patrice Lumumba Coalition

Teaching Marxism in the Classroom

Sponsor: Radical Philosophy Association
Moderator: Stephen Jay Gould, Philosophy, Connecticut State
Paula Rothenberg, NJ Project Integrating Scholarship on Gender, Paper - Teaching Issues Race, Class, Gender and Homophobia
Phil Presbey, Philosophy, Albertus Magnus College, Paper - Teaching Marx on a Just Distribution of Wealth
Bill Sensiba, Political Science, Stockton State College, *Paper - Radicalizing Students at the State College

New York and London: Cities in Decay

Sponsor: MassCult
Susanne MacGregor, Birkbeck College, University of London
Stuart Weir, Editor, New Statesman
Eric Lichten, Long Island University
William DiFazio, St. John's University

Labor Movement Role with Non-US Trade Unions

Sponsor: PAC of Coalition of Labor Union Women
Moderator: C. C. Reilly-Rivera, PAC of Coalition of Labor Union Women
Fritz Roll, German Trade Union Activist
Ron Blackwell, Economist, ACTWU

Feminism and the Public Sphere

Sponsor: Social Text
Patricia Mann, City College of New York
Nancy Fraser, Northwestern University
Linda Zerilli, Rutgers University
Bruce Robbins, Rutgers University

Drug Wars on the Left

Sponsor: South End Press
Clarence Lucane, Washington D.C., writer activist
Richard Golstein, Village Voice

How To Disscuss the Soviet Direction Direction of Reform: Dialogue and Discussion

Sponsor: Research Group on Socialism and Democracy
George Fisher, Historian of Soviet Affairs, former professor CUNY
Michael Brown, Editor Socialism and Democracy

Culture Gender and Freedom

Rosario Ibarra, Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Paulette Pierce, Queens College, CUNY
Slavenka Drakulic, Yugoslav Author and Feminist
Ellen Willis, Author, Journalist at the Village Voice
Barbara Ehrenreich, Author, Democratic Socialists of America; Co-Chair

Where are We in History

Andre Gunder Frank, Author
Bill Tabb, economics, Queens College
Cheryl Payer, Author; New York University Law School
Vincente Navarro, John Hopkins

Intellectuals and the Revolution in East Europe

Sponsor: New Politics
Moderator: Julius Jacobson, Co-Editor, New Politics
Daniel Singer, European Editor, The Nation
Lawrence Weschler, Staff writer for the New Yorker
Joanne Landy, Dir., Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Patrick Flaherty, Expert on the Soviet Union

Cocaine, Covert Operations and the Constitution

Sponsor: Christic Institute
Father Bill Teska, Religious Outreach Director, The Christic Institute
Lanny Sinkin, Litigation Director, The Christic Institute

Prospects for Democracy in Post Communist Societies

Andrew Arato, New School For Social Research
Milos Nikolic, Yugoslav Theorist
Robin Blackburn, Editor, The New Left Review
Mary Louise Weinberger, Journalist, West Germany

Author Meets Critics Alan Wolfe, "Of Whose Keeper, Moral Obligation and Social Science"

Barbara Katz Rothman, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Michael Waltzer, Princeton University
Alan Wolfe, Author

Social Policy and Economic Liberalism in Latin America

Sponsor: The Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
Moderator: Matthew Ede, The Bildner Center, and Queens College
Kim Edel, Sociology, CUNY, Graduate Center
Geisas Rocha, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Martin Weinstein, William Patterson College
Carlos Vilas, UNAM, Mexico City

The Impact of Changes in Eastern Europe on the Economics and Political Movements in Africa and Latin America

Archie Singham, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Gerald Horne, Black Studies, University of California SB
Tim Hector, Chair, Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement

Cuba from a Cuban Perspective

Moderator: Clinton Atlum, Chief, Cuban Interest Section, Washington D.C.
Juan Hernandez, Political Attache, Cuba Mission to the UN
Maria Perez, Cuban-American Research and Education Fund

Democratic Socialism: It's Ethical Necessity and Real Possibly

Sponsor: Radical Philosophers Association
Moderator: Paul Surlis, Theology, St. John's University
Carol Gould, Philosophy, Stevens Institute University, Paper - Social and Economic Justice and the Limits of Democracy
James Marsh, Philosophy, Fordham University, Paper - On the Possibility of Democratic Socialism

The Imperial City: New York Servicing the World

Sponsor: Left Business Observer
Robert Fitch, Journalist, Paper - What a Friend We Have in David Fiscal Policy of Mayor Dinkins
Anita Finkel, Word Processor and editor, New Dance Review, Paper - Flextime vs. Lunchtime: The Secretars Day
Doug Henwood, editor Left Business Observer, Paper - The City That Finance Made

The Lure of Market in Eastern Europe

Sponsor: Union for Radical Politics Economies
Moderator: Paddy Quick, Economics, St. Francis Sollege
Peter Darvas, Sociology, New York University
David Laibman, Economics, Brooklyn College
Christine Rider, Economics and Finance, St. Johns University

The Future of Gorbachev's Reform Politics

Sponsor: CUNY Democratic Socialists of America
Gurt Weisskrichen, SDP Expert on Eastern Europe
Peter Rutland, Government, Weslyn University
Andrei Adreyev, Press Secretary Soviet Mission
Branko Cartan, Presidium, Croatian League of Communists

Sex Work, Aids and Power

Sponsor: Social Text
Moderator: Veronica Vera, Prostitutes of New York
Candida Royalle, Producer, Femme Distribution, Erotic Films for Women
Cindy Patton, Aids Activist
Anne McClintock, Columbia of the Living with Aids Show

Elementry Through College: What Hirsch and Bloom Don't Know

Sponsor: Radical Teacher
Paul Lauter, Trinity College
Delridge Hunter, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Florence Tager, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Ann Fitzgerad, Association of Junior Leagues

Author Meets Critics: Dick Howard, "The Marxism Legacy"

Marx Wartovsky, Philosophy, Baruch College, CUNY
Dick Howard, Author
Scott McLenee, Dissent

Contract Negotiations and the Rank and File

Sponsor: Labor Solidarity Network, Punch Out
Tom Murray, DC 1707
Jeff Perry, Sec-Treasurer, Local 300 Mailhandlers
Jim Guyette, President-Trustee Local P-9
Nina Howes, Organizer Local 1199

Palestinian and Israeli Women in the Struggle for Peace and Liberation - a slide show, lecture, discussion

Sponsor: International Jewish Peace Union
Moderator: Sherry Gorelick, Rutgers University
Rabab Hadi, Palestine Solidarity Committee

Dimensions of Raya Dunayevskaya's Marxist Humanism

Laurie Green, History, New York University, Paper - On Rosa Luxemburg and Marxist Feminism
Nigel Gibson, Political Science, Columbia University
Kevin Anderson, Sociology, Northern Illinois University, Paper - On Dialectics and Humanism
Ted McGlone, Economics, St. John's University, Paper - On State Capitalism and the Eastern European Revolts

Socialist States-Socialist World: Evaluating the Current Terms of Crisis: Roundtable Editors Socialism and Democracy

Sponsor: Research Group on Socialism and Democracy
Michael E. Brown
Randy Martin
Ludmila Melchior
Frank Rosengart

Postmodern Racial Politics

Sponsor: Socialist Review
Mike Hanchard, Political Science, Princeton University
Lucius Outlaw, Department of Philosophy, Haverford College
Howard Winant, Department of Sociology, Temple University
Clara Rodriquez, Sociology, Fordham University

Time for a Left Third Party?

Moderator: Valarie Van Isler, Exec Director, Undercurrents WBAI
Don Rojas, Coalition Against US Intervention Latin America & Caribbean
Lloyd D'Aguilar, Producer, Human Rights in America WBAI
Lenni Brenner, Author: The Lesser Evil: The Democratic Party

The Politics of Socialist Ecology

Sponsor: Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
Moderator: Stephen Eric Bronner, Political Science, Rutgers University
George Katsiaficas, author: Imagination of the New Left, Paper - Earth and a New Environmental Politics
Meg Wilcox, University of Lowell, Paper - Health and Safety in Nicaragua
Daniel Farber, Coordinating Editor CNS, Paper - Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Central America

Socialist Prospects and the End of the Cold War

Sponsor: Democratic Socialists of America
Bogdan Denitch, Author, Socialist Debates
Norman Birnbaum, Georgetown University
Luciana Castellina, Italian PCI
Lucy Komisar, Author, Journalist

Michael Harrington as Theorist: A Critical Evaluation

Sponsor: Dissent
Frances Fox Piven, Political Science Graduate center CUNY
Joanne Barkan, Democratic Socialists of America National Political Committee
Irving Howe, Editor of Dissent

Pornography with a Human Face: Towards a Sexual Glastnost

Vivian Forlander, distributor, Femme Productions
Michael Kimmel, Editor, Men Confronting Pornography
Ame Gilbert, Carnival Knowledge Collective
Sheldon Ranz, write, adult video consultant

Building Bridges: Community-Labor Coalitions

Sponsor: Monthly Review
Moderator: Jeremy Brecher Co-Editor, Building Bridges
Temma Kaplan, Barbard Center for Research on Women
Kim Moody, Labor Notes
Jose Morales, El Puente Youth Center

Television and the Public Sphere

Sponsor: Mass Cult Research Group
Robin Anderson, Fordham University
Elayne Rapping, Adelphi University
Lynn Chancer, Barnard
Paolo Carpignano, Fordham University
William DiFanzio, St. John's University

Recent Developments in Marxist Theory

Nancy Holmstrom, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Michael Brown, Department of Sociology, CUNY
Bertell Ollman, Department of Plitics, New York University

Labor Resurgency?

Sponsor: Democratic Socialists of America
Paul Booth, Field Service Department, AFSCME
Jo-Ann Mort, ACTWU Communications Director
Paul Garver, Rutgers Labor Education Center
Paul Baichich, International Assoc. of Machinists at Eastern Airlines

Nicaragua's 1990 Elections: The US War Continues

Sponsor: South End Press
Phil Agee, Author, Inside the Company: CIA
Holly Sklar author: Washington's War on Nicaragua

The Viability of Jewish Life in the Soviet Union Today

Sam Norich, Director, Yivo Institute
Abraham Brumberg, Former Editor, Problems in Communism

That was Then, This is Now: Young Activists Reflect on the Legacy of the 1960's

Sponsor: Socialist Review
Moderator: Leslie Kaufman, Executive Director, Socialist Review
Raynard Davis, DC Students Against Apartheid and Racism
Heidi Dorow, Lesbian AIDS activist, ACT-UP, NY
Kate Fox, Youth Green
Lisa Sullivan, Black youth organizer, New Haven, CT

The Franco-German Couple and the European Economic Community

Olivier Mathey, Bankers Trust
Dieter Dietke, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Marie Louise Weinberger, Journalist, West Germany
Phillip Cerny, University of York

Sex Abuse: Threat or Menace

Sponsor: Social Text
Debbie Nathan, Village Voice
Ellen Willis, Village Voice

Cuba Today

Sponsor: New Politics
Moderator: Thomas Harrison, Editorial Board, New Politics
Deborah Evanson, author: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Cuba 1933-60
Saul Landau, author: The Dangerous Doctrine: National Security and US Policy
Carlos Luis, poet, Political Bureau, Cuban Social Democrats
Samuel Farber, Brooklyn College

Students Movements in Authoritarian Societies

Sponsor: Youth Section, Democratic Socialists of America
Peter Mathern, Founding Member, Czech Student Union
Sebastian McKay, South African student studying in the U.S.

The Left and the Prospects for the Dinkins Mayoralty

Sponsor: Against the Current
Mary Malloy, New School and Consultant on New York Fiscal Constraints
Robert Fitch, writer on urban issues

Topics in Gay Male Liberation, A Roundtable Discussion

Sponsor: The Male Study Group of New York
Moderator: Gary Lucef, Founder Columbia University Gay Study Group

Women Aids, and Activism

Sponsor: South End Press
Monica Pearl, Act-Up, New York Women's Action Committee
Marion Banzhaf, Act-Up, New York Women's Action Committee
Risa Dennenberg, Act-Up, New York Women's Action Committee
Zoe Leonard, Act-Up, New York Women's Action Committee

Ecological Economics (and Report from TOES 1990)

Sponsor: New York Green Network
Tony Gugemi, Massachusetts Greens Center for Popular Economics
Alredo De la Romana, Polanyi Institute
Kalpana Das, Monchanin Cultural Center, Montreal
Romesh Diwan, authro: Essays on Gandhian Economics

Is Socialism Dead?

Sponsor: Socialist Dialog
Moderator: Fritjof Thygessen
Arthur Lipow, Board, Campaign for Peace and Democracy East/West
Robert Brenner. Solidarity Organization, Editorial Board, Against the Current
Gil Green, National Committee Member, Communist Party USA

Derrida and Marx: Contradictions and Possibilities

Sponsor: Radical Philosophy Association
Moderator: Brian Seitz
Arthur Lipow, Queens College
Nora R. Wainer, English, CUNY Graduate Center, Paper - The Equation of Derrida and Marx
Bill Martin, Philosophy, University of Kansas, Paper - Enlightened Socialism: Stalinism & and Prospects for Community
Leonard Lawlor, Philosophy, Memphis State University, Paper - Political Risks: On Derrida's Notion of Difference
Fred Evans, Philosophy, Lowa State University, Paper - Language and Political Agency: Derrida, Marx and Bahktin

The Soviet Union Tomorrow

Carl Bloice, Peoples Daily World, Moscow Correspondent
Ralph Milliband, Editor, Socialist Resistrar
Paul Robeson, Jr., writer Lecturer
Daniel Songer, Author, Is Socialism Doomed?

The Politics of Post-Modernism

Stanley Aronowitz, Social Text
Chantal Mouffe, Cornell University
Paul Berman, Village Voice
Marshall Berman, Politcal Science

German Reunification Prospects and Problems

Moderator: Norman Birnbaum, Georgetown University
Hermann Scheer, SDP Deputy to West German Parliament
Dieter Dietke, Frederick Ebert Foundation
Petra Opitiz, East German Academy of Science
Marie Louise Weinberger, West German Journalist

Rethinking the American Communist Legacy

Sponsor: Radical Philosophers Association
Moderator: Tony Rosso, Professor of English, Southern Connecticut State
Alan Wald, English University of Michigan, Paper - Communist Wars
Rosalyn Baxandall, American Studies, CUNY - Old Westbury, Paper - Women and the Legacy of the Party
Javey Terres, English, Princeton University; commentator

Author Meets Critics: Lawrence Weschler "A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Toturers"

Jo-Mare Burt, Columbia University and formerly Serpaj, Uruguay
Aryeh Neier, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Elio Gaspari, Veja Brazil
Lawrence Weschler, Author

Ecology in Europe East and West and Future of the Left

Ina Merkel, Unabhangige Frauen (Independent Women)
Tatiana Bohm, Green Party and Green League
Phil Hill, correspondent, Guardian

Many Singles Issues Together Make a Big Majority

Sponsor: CUNY Democratic Socialists of America
Moderator: Nat Mills
Jeremy Brecher, author: Building Bridges and Strike!
Guy Molyneux, Editor, The Commonwealth Report
David Sprintzen, Chair, Progressive Coalition of Long Island

Immigration and Ethnic Politics In Western Europe

Martin Schain, Politics NYU
Patrizia Dogliani, University of Moderna, Italy
Susan McGregor, British Social Policy Analyst
Aristide Zohlberg, Politics, New School for Social Research

Workshop on Researching the Corporatization of the Universe and the Struggle Against Elitism, Sexism and Racism

Sponsor: Network of the Alternative Student Press
Rich Cowan, National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest

Resistance and Demoralization: Responses to War

Sponsor: Research group on Socialism
Moderator: Randy Martin, Social Science, Pratt Institute
Barton Meyers, Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn, Paper - Resistance to Demoralization in the Face of Bombing
Douglas Robbins, Social Science, Pratt Institut, Paper - U.S. Military Use of Psychological War

After Panama: U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and Central America