Tithi Bhattacharya

Tithi Bhattacharya teaches history at Purdue University. Her first book, The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford, 2005), is about the obsession with culture and education in the middle class.

Domestic Worker Organizing in Times of Crisis

Luisa Batista Pereira, Gilda Blanco, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Tithi Bhattacharya.

Free, Free, Palestine

With Nerdeen Kiswani, Sumaya Awad, Khury Petersen-Smith, Tithi Bhattacharya.

Socialist Feminist Day School

January 30th, 2021.

The Socialist Feminist Working Group of the Democratic Socialists of America invites you to the first session of an eight week Day School. Beginning January 30, and meeting every other Saturday (02/13, 02/27, 03/13, 03/27, 04/10, 04/24, and 05/08), we will discuss key issues for socialist feminists, including identity politics, social reproduction, socialist feminism and labor organizing, reproductive justice, queer and trans socialist feminisms, sex work, and anti-violence organizing.

Our first session will provide an introduction to socialist feminist thinking and organizing. We will discuss the following readings:

• What is Socialist Feminism (2020) by Sarah Leonard
• “Aren’t Socialism and Feminism Sometimes in Conflict?” (2016) by Nicole Aschoff in the ABC’s of Socialism
• Theses 1 -3 from Feminism for the 99 Percent: A Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser (2019) Pages 1- 16

Considering DSA

Tithi Bhattacharya September 4 2019·

Hey DSA comrades, completely honest question here: I am considering joining, but I want to know what the organisational focus will be if (for some of us when) Bernie does not win the nomination?

Please bear in mind, I am an old style leftie who operate with organisational "perspectives". In other words, I know the simple answer to my question is that the DSA will be doing movement work--great--but is there an organisational perspective on what kinds of movements will be prioritised and why?

ISO member

International Socialist Organization - Boston, March 8 2018

ISO member and co-organizer of the #InternationalWomensStrike Tithi Bhattacharya spoke with Amy Goodman today on Democracy Now! about the #InternationalWomensDay strikes happening in the U.S., Spain, and elsewhere around the world.

Spoke at Socialism 2016 Conference

Some of our Speakers at Socialism 2016 included:

• Adam Blueford
• Jeralynn Blueford
• Gilbert Achcar
• Mike Davis
• Barbara Ransby
• Sharon Smith
• Anthony Arnove
• Ian Angus
• Sam Farber
• Eli Friedman
• Justin Akers Chacon
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Paul D'Amato
• Khury Petersen-Smith
• Amy Goodman
• Neil Davidson
• Lester Spence
• Jesse Hagopian
• Tithi Bhattacharya
• Brian Jones
• Alan Maass
• Nicole Colson
• Scott McLemee
• Donna Murch
• Bill Mullen
• Danny Katch
• Jennifer Roesch
• Jon Soske
• Ahmed Shawki
• Charlotte Bence
• John Riddell
• Bhaskar Sunkara
• Sherry Wolf
• Dave Zirin
• Dan Georgakas
• Marvin Surkin

Women's March

In The Guardian Monday 6 February 2017, Linda Martín Alcoff, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Barbara Ransby, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rasmea Yousef Odeh, Angela Davis wrote;

Women of America: we're going on strike. Join us so Trump will see our power... The ‘lean-in’ variety of feminism won’t defeat this administration, but a mobilization of the 99% will. On 8 March we will take to the streets.

The massive women’s marches of 21 January may mark the beginning of a new wave of militant feminist struggle. But what exactly will be its focus? In our view, it is not enough to oppose Trump and his aggressively misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and racist policies. We also need to target the ongoing neoliberal attack on social provision and labor rights....

Let us join together on 8 March to strike, walk out, march and demonstrate. Let us use the occasion of this international day of action to be done with lean-in feminism and to build in its place a feminism for the 99%, a grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism – a feminism in solidarity with working women, their families and their allies throughout the world.

Karl Marx 200

From 2 to 6 May 2018, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung organized an international congress on the occasion of Karl Marx's 200th birthday, Berlin, Franz-Mehring-Platz.

Panelists included Patrick Bond (University of the Witwatersrand/ South Africa), Jan Toporowski (University of London), Kohei Saito (Osaka City University, Japan), Judith Dellheim (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung). Moderation / facilitation: Frieder Otto Wolf (FU Berlin), Michael Heinrich (Berlin) Moderation: Antonella Muzzupappa (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung), Michael Hardt (Duke University, USA) Facilitation: Lars Stubbe, Mario Candeias (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung), Wolfgang Fritz Haug (Esslingen), Katja Kipping (DIE LINKE), Zhang Shuangli (Fudan University, Shanghai, China). Moderation: Rainer Rilling (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung), Gayatri Spivak, Daphne Weber, Arlie Hochschild, Maria do Mar Castro Varela (Alice-Salomon-Hochschule, Berlin), Paul Mason (Great Britain), Sebastian Puschner (FREITAG), Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue), Luciana Castellina (Italien / Italy), Klaus Lederer (DIE LINKE), Vishwas Satgar (Wits University, Südafrika / South Africa). Moderation: Wenke Christoph (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung), Christina Kaindl (DIE LINKE), Klaus Dorre (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), Hans-Jurgen Urban (IG Metall). Moderation: Sebastian Friedrich (Journalist und Autor), Bernd Riexinger (DIE LINKE), Sarah Leonard (The Nation, USA). Moderation: Kerstin Wolter (DIE LINKE), Nausheen Quayyum (York University, Toronto), Mariana Stoler (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), Karl-Heinz Roth (Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Bremen), Alex Demirovic (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M.), Kavita Krishnan (All India Progressive Women’s Association, Indien). Moderation: Mario Candeias (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung), Hermann Klenner.