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With skyrocketing unemployment, essential workers striking against dangerous conditions, and social distancing imposing new constraints on activism, the pandemic crisis is posing unprecedented challenges to today's class struggle. What lessons can we learn from socialist history and theory for our contemporary conjuncture? Join Robin D.G. Kelley, Sarah Jaffe, and Asad Haider for a discussion on lessons we can learn from the past for organizing today.
Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History at UCLA, and author of several books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression.
Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at Type Media Center and the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt and the forthcoming Work Won't Love You Back.
Asad Haider is the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump and a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine.
All Verso books are 50% off and all ebooks are 80% off until May 24th as part of the Red May sale: versobooks.com/blogs/4693-red-may-sale
With skyrocketing unemployment, essential workers striking against dangerous conditions, and social distancing imposing new constraints on activism, the pandemic crisis is posing unprecedented challenges to today's class struggle. What lessons can we learn from socialist history and theory for our contemporary conjuncture? Join Robin D.G. Kelley, Sarah Jaffe, and Asad Haider for a discussion on lessons we can learn from the past for organizing today.
Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History at UCLA, and author of several books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression.
Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at Type Media Center and the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt and the forthcoming Work Won't Love You Back.
Asad Haider is the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump and a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine.
All Verso books are 50% off and all ebooks are 80% off until May 24th as part of the Red May sale: versobooks.com/blogs/4693-red-may-sale
