Global Left Dialogue

Global Left Dialogue

Global Left Dialogue: 2005 Left Forum

An announcement for the Marxist-dominated Global Left Dialogue, 2005 Left Forum, appeared in the April 4, 2005 issue of The Nation, p. 15. It was one of several similar forums held in the US and abroad by Marxists of all stripes. The following is a complete reproduction of this notice.

"Global Left Dialogue" - "2005 Left Forum", April 15-17, 2005, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC

Confirmed Speakers Include:

• Tariq Ali - Pakistani Marxist long associated with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and other Marxist organizations
• Barbara Ehrenreich - avowed Marxist and leader of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
• Joe Trippi - presumably the former campaign director for Walter Mondale's presidential drive in 1980. Trippi might be one of the few non-Marxists on this list
• Bill Fletcher, Jr.. - hardcore Marxist, with a maoist orientation. See his KW page for details
• Michelle Fine
• Tod Ensign - hardcore member of the Hanoi Lobby including the National Commission for a Citizens' Commission of Inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam.
• Ellen Meiksins Wood
• Toni Negri
• Francois Houtart
• Robin D. G. Kelley
• Ellen Willis
• Gilbert Achcar
• Stephen R. Shalom
• Stanley Aronowitz - oldtime Marxist
• Michael Klare - former SDS leader, hardcore Marxist, NACLA, etc.
• Luciana Castellina
• Lynne Stewart - avowed communist, lawyer and federal convict for aiding terrorists while acting as their attorney
• Manning Marable - open Marxist and Black liberation leader
• Jason West
• Barbara Ransby
• Peter Gowan
• Barbara Epstein
• Doug Henwood
• Frances Fox Piven - avowed socialist of the Cloward-Piven destroy society strategems
• Gerald Horne - open member of the Communist Party USA
• Rose Clemente
• William K. Tabb - Once associated with the CPUSA; in the 1980's he joined the Democratic Socialists of America (See his KW page for details)
• Joel Rogers - hardcore Marxist
• David Harvey
• Rose Brewer
• Cindy Milstein
• Leo Panitch - Marxist
• Christine A. Kelly
• Barbara Garson - leftist playwright who supports various Marxist fronts and causes
• Christian Parenti - the son of Marxist/communist Michael Parenti who was associated with the CPUSA for many years
• Stephen Eric Bronner
• Michael Albert - old leftist activist
• Michael Zweig - Marxist oriented teacher
• Maria Helena Moreira Alves
• Pete Tridish
• Frieder Otto Wolf
• Michael Hardt
• Stephen Duncombe
• Eddie Yuen
• Chris Dixon
• Staughton Lynd -veteran Marxist teacher and social affairs strategist/analyst
• Richard Goldstein
• Richard D. Wolff - veteran Marxist teacher
• Ward Morehouse
• and resisters and veterans of the War in Iraq, and many more...

"The U.S., the World, and the Next 4 Years" Featuring Panels:

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