Jerry Harris

Jerry Harris

Jerry Harris... is the national secretary of the Global Studies Association of North America, and on the international board of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism. His articles have often appeared in Race & Class (London), Science & Society (New York) and International Critical Thought (Beijing). His last book was Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy. His work has been translated to Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Czech, and Slovak. He is a member of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. and also of Democratic Socialists of America.

DSA at Socialism Conference 2024

Sessions featuring DSA members:

A New Red Scare?

Sunday September 1, 2024 12:00pm – 1:30pm CDT

Our comrades protesting the genocide in Gaza are being arrested on campus and in the streets. Liberals abandon liberalism; conservatives celebrate brutality. We feel on the edge of something like McCarthyism, if not fascism. What can we learn from past red scares? How do socialists recognize and resist repression now? What should we do that we didn’t, or couldn’t, before?

Featuring Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez (Chicago DSA, Chicago City Council), Jerry Harris (Chicago DSA, DSA National Political Education Committee), Renee Paradis (East Bay DSA, DSA National Political Committee), Andrew Basta (Lower Hudson Valley DSA, DSA International Committee), Ashik Siddique .

Chicago DSA

Chicago Democratic Socialists of America

CCDS

The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism held its every third-year national convention online Saturday, June 1 and Sunday June 2, 2024.

At mid-morning Jerry Harris gave the keynote address that highlighted the current political situation within the global context.

Next were several workshops on CCDS committees that included Elections (Carl Davidson), Class Race and Gender (Erica Carter and Paul Krehbiel), and Peace & Solidarity: International Relations, part 1 (Harry Targ, Duncan McFarland, Peter Deutsch).

After lunch, workshops resumed, with sessions on Labor (Paul Krehbiel and Sandy Eaton), the Environment and Climate (David Schwartzman), the Socialist Education Project (Jay D. Jurie), and Peace & Solidarity Part 2: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (Stephen David, Rod Such & Harry Targ).

US Teamsters on the Frontlines!

US Teamsters on the Frontlines! was a July 16 2023 Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack! webinar on the looming UPS strike.

Participants included Jerry Harris Chicago retired steelworker.

Liberation Road

Jerry Harris is involved with Liberation Road.

Forward Motion

Jerry Harris, a long time activist living Chicago, contributed an article to Freedom Road Socialist Organization's Forward Motion, September 1991 issue.

Committees of Correspondence Connection

In 1994 Jerry Harris, Chicago was listed on a "Membership, Subscription and Mailing List" for the Chicago Committees of Correspondence, an offshoot of the Communist Party USA.

Chicago Third Wave Study Group

In 1993, a year after the Guardian closed its doors, Carl Davidson published, along with co-author Jerry Harris, history professor at DeVry University in Chicago, and Ivan Handler, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the State of Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, a new manifesto, "The Promise and Peril of the Third Wave: Socialism and Democracy for the 21st Century."

The Chicago Third Wave Study Group, initiated by Carl Davidson, Ivan Handler and Jerry Harris.

It was formed expressly to produce this document for the discussion on goals and principles taking place in the Committees of Correspondence, leading up to the founding convention of a new organization of the American left in the summer of 1994.

cy.Rev: A Journal of Cybernetic Revolution, Sustainable Socialism & Radical Democracy. The first issue, with articles by Carl Davidson, Jerry Harris, and Ivan Handler, who once had been active in the New Left and the Maoist movement, was submitted to the founding convention of the Committees of Correspondence.

cy.Rev

cy.Rev: A Journal of Cybernetic Revolution, Sustainable Socialism and Radical Democracy.

• Editorial Board (in formation, 1996): Abdul Alkalimat, Stanley Aronowitz, Rhon Baiman, Carl Davidson, Jim Davis, Ivan Handler, Jerry Harris, Jilliane Smith, Selena Sol, Mike Stack, John Trinkl, Sue Van Hattem.
• Managing Editor: Carl Davidson.
• Production Group: Brodie Dollinger, Jerry Harris, Anita Malinski and Paul Shafer.

Online University of the Left

The Online University of the Left, a new `Left Unity’ project, was initiated by the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism in 2012. It’s core orientation is Marxist, but it contains teaching resources reflecting the full range of views on the wider left. About 50 left academics are involved in the core group so far-Richard Wolff, David Schweickart, Rose Brewer, Timothy Johnson, Gregory Morales, Bill Tabb, Ellen Schwartz, Jerry Harris, Linda Alcoff, Dana Cloud, Gar Alperovitz, to name a few.

One of the OUL’s key aims is to solve this problem of scattered resources, creating a web portal that will bring much of this valuable material together in one spot in cyberspace.

Carl Davidson is lead organizer.