On the Challenges of Offering an Emancipatory Internationalist Alternative to Imperialism, Capitalism, Sexism and Racism
Alliance of MENA Socialists
English - March 23, 2020 11:07 - 2 hours - 95.2 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On July 21st 2019, the Alliance co-sponsored a discussion between Venezuelan, Syrian and Iranian Socialists to speak about the Challenges of Offering an Emancipatory Internationalist Alternative to Imperialism, Capitalism, Sexism and Racism.
Speakers:
Simon Rodriguez: Venezuelan political activist, alternative journalist and musician. Founder and coordinator of Laclase.info during the years 2008-2015 and currently part of the editorial committee of Venezuelanvoices.org
Eva Maria: Venezuelan socialist feminist, teaches Latin American literature to Latinx high school students
Yasser Munif: Assistant professor in the Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. Author of The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death.
Joseph Daher: Academic and socialist activist. Author of Syria after the Uprisings, the Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto Press and Haymarket, 2019) and Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God (Pluto, 2016). He is the founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever.
Frieda Afary: Philosophy M.A, a librarian, translator, producer of Iranian Progressives in Translation (www.iranianprogressives.org)
Moderator:
Sara Dehkordi: Teaches Political and Social Sciences in Berlin on the subjects of critical peace and conflict, decolonial theories and critique, colonial genocide, repressed archives and collective memory building. Her forthcoming book is On the City’s Shoulders – Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present-Day South Africa. She is also a member of Manjanigh, a group of Iranian socialists living in exile (manjanigh.com)
Full description: https://allianceofmesocialists.org/livestream-facebook-dialogue-between-venezuelan-syrian-and-iranian-socialists-on-the-challenges-of-offering-an-emancipatory-alternative-sunday-july-21-2019/
Video live stream: https://www.facebook.com/2196931800604746/videos/436232750295692/