Thursday, February 26
We begin by a look back through the decades of socialist experience with revolutionary organization building and struggle in order to find answers to the question: What kind of organizations do we need in order to build toward socialism?
Panelists will reflect on why have our experiments with “party building” failed and what aspects of our revolutionary socialist traditions should be recovered and practiced. How can we build such organizations?
Whether or not you have taken part in the reading group series on Problems of Socialist Organization or not, all are welcome to join this discussion. You can find the full syllabus of readings for the series here (as well as a few background readings for this panel), along with recordings and reports from previous sessions.
Panelists:
David Finkel ia a member of Solidarity’s national committee and editor of Against the Current magazine.
Ansar Fayyazuddin is a physicist active in Solidarity and Science for the People. He is an advisory editor of Against the Current.
Liz Hee, she/they, is interested in relational organizing informed by socialism from below, which they are continually learning about and developing a practice of through struggle. Liz is a member of Tempest and the From the Periphery Media Collective.
Bill V. Mullen is a member of Socialist Horizon and author of many books, including UnAmerican: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution (Temple, 2015) and co-author with Jeanelle K. Hope of The Black AntiFascist Tradition (Haymarket, 2024).
This panel discussion will be the final event in Solidarity’s reading group series, Problems of Socialist Organization. (If you have attended the series, you don’t need to register.)
Thursday February 26, 8pm ET
By Zoom, register here
Readings
Solidarity’s organizational vision: “Solidarity Founding Statement” (1986), “Why Socialists Need Organization” (2022?)
Internal democracy: problems of democratic centralism:
Scott Nappolas, “Democratic Centralism in Practice and Idea: A Critical Evaluation,” Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation, May 11 2017