Please join the Political Education Committee as we finalize the syllabus for our class series on imperialism. Most of our attention will be on choosing more locations for "Modern Case Studies" module. Possibilities under consideration with accompanying articles to be discussed include:

• Puerto Rico
  • Linda Backiel - "Puerto Rico: The Crisis is about Colonialism, Not Debt"
  • Intercepted Podcast - Journalist Juan González on Puerto Rico’s Huge Debt, and How Wall Street and the Bipartisan Washington Political Machine are Responsible
• Palestine 
  • Rashid I. Khalidi - "Historical Landmarks in the Hundred Years' War on Palestine"
  • From the Heartland of Empire: a Roundtable on Palestinian Solidarity and Struggle in America - specifically looking at  comments under "Israel and International Settler-Colonialism"
• Iran
  • Greg Shupak - "No to War on Iran"
• The EU-Greece Relationship
  • Panagiotis Sotiris  and Spyros Sakellaropoulos - "European Union as Class Project and Imperialist Strategy"
  • Richard Seymour - "Syriza: the denouement"
• Hong Kong
  • Chuang - "Anarchists in the Resistance to the Extradition Bill"

We are currently seeking facilitators for all class modules, which include (1.) Imperialism from the Industrial Revolution through WWII, (2.) Imperialism from WWII to today, (3.) Imperialism and the National Question, and (4.) Modern Case Studies on Imperialism. If you have experience or interest in guiding discussions for this class, please attend!