On this page you can find videos and resources on various international topics from our webinars, panels and events with various experts, organizers and political activists around the world.
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- Hands off Niger (9/9/23)
- YDSA on ZHAP (7/2/23)
- The Korean War (6/24/23)
- Peace Conference (5/15/23)
- Rana Plaza (5/6/23)
- Little Girl of Hanoi (3/29/23)
- AMLO Reforms (3/19/23)
- AFRICOM (11/17/22)
- Starbucks (11/24/22)
- Honduras Strike (11/23/22)
- Pakistan Floods (10/8/22)
- Ecuador Strike (10/6/22)
- Cuba Families Code (9/21/22)
- The Kingmaker (9/7/22)
- War in Ukraine (8/28/22)
- Victory in Colombia (8/16/22)
- Turkey Militarism (7/9/22)
- Brazil Delegation (6/27/22)
- Intro Global Econ, S3 (6/26/22)
- Iran Nuclear Deal (6/15/22)
- Jabari Brisport (5/30/22)
- Intro Global Econ, S2 (5/22/22)
- US Pacific Military (5/18/22)
- Noam Chomsky (5/11/22)
- Brazil Socialism (4/19/22)
- Intro Global Econ, S1 (4/17/22)
- Okinawa (3/19/22)
- Colombia Election (3/4/22)
- Philippines Labor (3/3/22)
- Belmarsh Tribunal (2/25/22)
- Chile Starbucks (2/23/22)
- Yemen (2/20/22)
- Chile Delegation (2/1/22)
- Chile Awakens (12/13/21)
- Korea (11/18/21)
- Thomas Sankara (11/10/21)
- Venezuela Sanctions (10/23/21)
- Cuba (9/30/21)
- Global South (9/28/21)
- China (9/20/21)
- Ireland (9/19/21)
- Afghanistan (8/21/21)
- Internationalism (8/7/21)
- Venezuela Delegation (7/21/21)
- Palestine (5/22/21)
- Race/ Ethnicity (5/2/21)
- Eastern Europe (4/7/21)
- BDS/ Palestine (2/6/21)
- Indigenous Rights (12/17/20)
- US Imperialism (10/22/20)
- Mexico (10/18/20)
- Iraq (10/17/20)
- Covid-19/ Europe (9/26/20)
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- Israeli Elections (10/6/19)
Hands off Niger! Opposing U.S. and French Imperialism in West Africa
Panelists: Dr Ndongo Samba Sylla, Gbenga Komolafe, Tunde Osazua
September 9, 2023
A political education webinar for DSA members and the general public to understand recent developments across West Africa, including the levying of sanctions and the ongoing threat of military action against Niger. Hosted by DSA IC’s Middle East and Africa Subcommittee.
The Zenko Henoko Anti-Base Project (ZHAP) in Okinawa
Panelists: Takuma Tanaka, Nick Watkins, Andrew Basta
July 2, 2023
The YDSA Youth Leadership Committee of the DSA International Committee hosted an event to share information about our ongoing campaign to oppose building a US military base in Okinawa, specifically in partnership with the ZENKO Henoko Anti-Base Project (ZHAP). ZHAP is an anti-war campaign based in Okinawa fighting against the construction of the new US military base in Henoko.
More info: dsaic.org/zhap
The Korean War 70 Years On
Actions & Resources: dsaic.org/korea
International Conference for Peace in Northeast Asia
May 15, 2023
DSA International Committee co-hosted this peace conference in Korea organized by the International Strategy Center and the Justice Party, featuring elected members of Parliament from the National Assembly in South Korea and organizers from Korea, Japan, Okinawa, US, and UK, to discuss the need for peace and to oppose a growing new US-driven Cold War in the Asia-Pacific.
Triangle to Rana Plaza to Temp Workers: Building Worker Power for Safe Healthy Workplaces
The Little Girl of Hanoi with Luna Oi!
DSA International Committee and Black Alliance for Peace provide a teach-in on the history of AFRICOM and US imperialism in Africa, its ongoing militarism across the continent, and the longstanding local opposition against it.
To donate to the strike fund, visit: gofund.me/e084bc4c
Unfortunately, Pakistan is not alone, and their demands are part of a growing global climate justice movement which seeks to hold the Global North and corporations accountable for the crisis that they created. But, in addition to financial support to countries suffering the impacts of the climate crisis, we have to undo a global economic system that keeps them down, that works to keep countries in debt, and that forces them to adopt austerity measures that are fundamentally incompatible with the kind of societal investments needed to respond and adapt to climate change.
Join the DSA International Committee and guest speakers Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (author of Reconsidering Reparations), Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Pakistan), Asad Rehman (Director of War on Want), and Bhumika Muchhala (Senior Advisory, Third World Network) to learn about the devastating situation in Pakistan and how Pakistan’s demands are linked to movements for debt and climate justice, and what truly transformative reparations should look like.
DSA IC Pakistan Floods Statement
In June 2022, indigenous organizers principally led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAIE) called for a national strike in the face of rising inflation, deteriorating social services, and lack of enforcement of constitutional rights by the right-wing and neoliberal government of Guillermo Lasso. The government responded with widespread violence and military crackdowns. Ultimately, the strikes went on for nearly a month before they brought the government to the bargaining table.
Indigenous organizers from the June 2022 national strike in Ecuador will join the DSA International Committee for a webinar in order to reflect on their organizing, report on the status of negotiations with the Ecuadorian state, and share lessons for the possibilities of massive labor action.
DSA IC Ecuador Strike Statement
Watch the film The Kingmaker (2019)
The War in Ukraine, Impacts and Perspectives: Women, Workers, and Global South
- Olena Lyubchenko (Ukraine)
- Yurii Sheliazhenko (Ukraine)
- Richard Woff (US)
- Pawel Wargan (Poland)
- Sopo Japaridze (Georgia)
- Vijay Prashad (India)
For more info: dsaic.org/ukraine
The Victory of the Nobodies: The Electoral Victory of the Left in Colombia in Historical Perspective
Panelists: Adriaan Alsema, Esteban Pinilla, Natalia Mosquera
August 16, 2022
For over 70 years, Colombia has been mired in violence that has taken the lives of more than 700,000 people. This violence can be understood as having two phases: the first phase is a consequence of the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948, which unleashed a wave of violence between liberals and conservatives called the Bogotazo.
The second phase is ushered in by a conflict between revolutionary forces and a state captured by a powerful oligarchy, in which those in power have resorted to using every means at their disposal to maintain their control, including the use of political assassinations, paramilitaries and even narcotraffickers to shut out the left from any viable legal or civil path to power. This entrenched oligarchy has been extremely successful in not yielding an inch of power to any elements of the left or popular forces, thus an armed conflict arises between the peasants in the countryside and their urban allies forming a militant and armed left in the FARC, ELN and EPL.
In the context of this violent class conflict, the electoral victory of Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez is a testament to the power of decades of organizing and resistance to an oligarchic-controlled state.
DSA in Brazil Report Back Call
Panelists: Rosane , Alexandre Pupo, Gabriel Acevero, Kristian Hernandez, Ashik Siddique, Jana Silverman, James E-T, Sofia Guimaraes
June 27, 2022
From April 29 – May 4, Kristian Hernandez, Ashik Siddique, and Sofia Cutler Guimaraes (NPC), Jana Silverman (International Committee), James E-T (NCC-YDSA), and Gabriel Acevero, (Maryland State Delegate – Socialists in Office) went to Sao Paulo, Brazil as part of an exchange hosted by the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), Central Unica dos Trabalhadores (CUT), and Foro de Sao Paulo.
During the week they spent in Brazil, they heard first-hand about the attacks against workers being spearheaded by Jair Bolsonaro’s neo-fascist government, and the tragic consequences of the 1964-1985 US-sponsored military dictatorship. However, they also learned about how unions, social movements and socialist activists are resisting neo-fascism and neoliberalism, and building the campaign to elect Lula in this October’s Presidential elections.
Join the webinar to hear from the members of the DSA in Brazil delegation about what DSA can learn from the struggles of Brazilian popular movements, and discuss how DSA can play a role in defending democracy in Brazil during this crucial election year. In addition to the delegation members, the call will also feature James Green, Co-coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, Alexandre Pupo, International Affairs Secretary of the PT youth wing, and other representatives of the PT and CUT that DSA met with during the trip.
Intro to Global Economics, S3: The World Bank and IMF
Panelists: Jayati Ghosh, Bhumika Muchhala
June 26, 2022
The IMF and the World Bank are two of the most consequential institutions in the world. In theory, they exist to protect the global economy and help developing countries. But the reality has often proved far different. In this session, leading experts and activists seek to answer: Why were the IMF and World Bank established? How do these institutions operate? What role have they played in making the world that we have today? And most of all, how can we in the US left join in solidarity with people around the world — from Argentina, to Kenya, to Lebanon — to build a better alternative and a global economy that works for everyone.
Featuring UMass Amherst economist Jayati Ghosh, and the Third World Network’s Bhumika Muchhala. Moderated by the DSA IC’s Josh Brown.
This is the third session in the DSA International Committee’s Intro to Global Economics series, organized by the Climate and Economics subcommittee.
Iran: The Battle in Washington to Avert the Next Forever War
Panelists: Assal Rad, Matthew Petti
June 15, 2022
The people of Iran have been under economic siege ever since the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from a successful nuclear nonproliferation agreement between Iran and the P5+1 powers. The economic war waged on the nation has exacted severe human costs, especially on the most marginalized demographics. With tensions rising, that economic war threatens to become a real war.
DSA International Committee organized this political education panel covering the status of the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal), the coalition of Iran hawks trying to sabotage peace, as well as the nature of the economic destruction being imposed on Iran by the United States.
Join International Committee member Amir as he discusses the pertinent facts with researcher Dr. Assal Rad and journalist Matthew Petti. Learn what you can do to avert the United States’ next imperial forever war.
Solidarity message against construction of new US military base in Okinawa
Speaker: NY State Senator Jabari Brisport
May 30, 2022
New York state senator and DSA representative Jabari Brisport shares a message of solidarity to comrades from ZENKO and others in Okinawa and Japan fighting against the construction of a new US military base in Henoko.
Learn more at dsaic.org/zhap
Intro to Global Economics, S2 –
Cancel the Debt: Breaking the Shackles of Global South Indebtedness
Panelists: Heidi Chow, Mae Buenaventura-Dolleton, Natalia Renta
May 22, 2022
“Debt is neo-colonialism”—these are the words of Marxist revolutionary and President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara, proclaimed in his celebrated 1987 call for an African united front against debt. Within a year, he would be dead, in what was likely a Western-backed assassination.
What is government debt? How is debt wielded as a tool of imperialism, from Argentina to Puerto Rico to Zambia? Why was Sankara’s challenge against debt deemed so dangerous that it helped get him killed? And how can we help to break these shackles that bind the Global South and restrict global climate action?
Part 2 of the DSA IC Climate and Economics Subcommittee’s Intro to Global Economics series seeks to answer these questions and more.
Featuring:
- Heidi Chow, Executive Director, Debt Justice (fka Jubilee Debt Campaign UK)
- Mae Buenaventura-Dolleton, Debt Justice lead, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development
- Natalia Renta, Puerto Rican debt expert
Cancel the Debt is Session 2 of the new Intro to Global Economics series, by the DSA IC Climate and Economics Subcommittee. Watch Session 1: “The World We Have,” with Adom Getachew, Jason Hickel and David Kotz.
US Military in the Pacific: Anti-War Conference
Panelists: Mark Tseng-Putterman, Dae-Han Song, Seishi Hinada, Sarah Raymundo, Lisa Natividad, Keoni DeFranco
May 18, 2022
DSA International Committee has organized this anti-war conference on May 18, 2022 about the history, ongoing contemporary struggles, and local resistance by anti-war organizers, indigenous activists, environmentalists, socialists, and other progressive forces in the Pacific opposed to US militarism, occupation, and imperialism. Join local organizers in the Pacific to hear about campaigns, strategies, and tactics for opposing militarization and growing the left anti-war and anti-imperialist movement.
For more info and resources on the event:
dsaic.org/us-military-pacific
Solidarity Message to Russian Left Against the War in Ukraine
Speaker: Noam Chomsky
May 11, 2022
Noam Chomsky gives a solidarity message to people in Russia who are opposing the war in Ukraine even against their own government’s repression. We need to build a global anti-war movement that can oppose militarism and reject wars and instead put working-class interests first.
Rebuilding Socialism in Brazil
Panelists: Monica Valente, Juneia Batista, Fabio de Sa e Silva
April 19, 2022
Twenty years ago, the Workers’ Party (PT) came to power in Brazil and implemented policies that brought 40 million people out of poverty, offered new educational opportunities to poor, Afro-Brazilian and indigenous youth, and strengthened South-South solidarity, in order to counterbalance US imperialism in Latin America. However the attempts to advance towards democratic socialism in Brazil under the PT governments were derailed after the 2016 parliamentary coup against President Dilma Rousseff and then definitively buried after the election of neo-fascist Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. In Bolsonaro’s three and a half years in office, his government has destroyed record swathes of the Amazon forest, persecuted social movement leaders, gutted labor rights, and deliberately mishandled the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the deaths of over 661,000 Brazilians from the virus. As Brazilians prepare to head to the polls this October, their choice between rebuilding their democracy or continuing a barbaric slide towards authoritarianism could not be any clearer.
In this webinar, we will hear from Brazilian political and union leaders on the front lines of the struggle for human and labor rights, and learn about what we can do as activists in the US to fight against any undue US government intervention in the Brazilian political process. We will also give details about the upcoming NPC/IC May Day Delegation to Brazil and talk about what DSA aims to learn from the PT and other social movement partners during this trip.
Intro to Global Economics, S1: The World We Have
Panelists: Adom Getachew, Jason Hickel, David Kotz
April 17, 2022
How does the global economic system work? How do the rules of the capitalist, imperialist system work to benefit the few at the expense of the many? And how do we transform this world for the protection of the planet and the liberation of workers in the Global South and North alike?
Over the coming months, the Climate and Economics Subcommittee of the DSA International Committee will present a new political education series—an Introduction to Global Economics—to answer these questions and more, exploring the key dynamics of, and actors in, the contemporary global economic system.
NO-Kinawa: Stop Construction of New U.S. Military Base in Henoko
Panelists: Fumihiro Mori, Masanori Okuma, Patterson Deppen
March 19, 2022
Join the DSA International Committee and ZHAP (ZENKO Henoko Anti-base Project) for an urgent call to action to prevent the construction of a new US military base in the already heavily militarized islands of Okinawa. Panelists include Fumihiro Mori of ZENKO, Masanori Okuma of Okinawa Drone Project, and Patterson Deppen of DSA IC.
For more resources and information on DSA’s involvement with the ZHAP campaign:
Chile Awakens: The Mass Movement to Defeat Neoliberalism
Panelists: Carlos Fuentealba, Diego Vela, Eric Campos
December 13, 2021
Join the DSA International Committee, Apruebo Dignidad, and the Gabriel Boric campaign on December 13th at 7PM ET to learn about how left activists in Chile are turning the energy from protests against neoliberalism in 2019 to movements for lasting change today, joined by three guests from Chile: Carlos Fuentealba from the Boric campaign, Diego Vela, the executive director of Rumbo Colectivo, a grassroots social movement org in Chile, and Eric Campos, the general secretary of CUT Chile, the largest trade union federation in Chile.
Thomas Sankara: Life, Legacy and Lessons for Contemporary Movements
Illegal Sanctions Against Venezuela: A Feminist Human Rights Perspective
DSA Says Let Cuba Live: Ending the US Blockade Today
The Rising Tide of Ecosocialist Left in Ireland
Panelists: Paul Murphy
September 19, 2021
Join us as we learn about the rising left wing of Ireland’s political horizon. Paul Murphy will discuss the climate crisis, housing, international solidarity, and more.
Race, Politics, and the Democratic Socialist Left: Perspectives from France and the U.S
Love and Sex Behind the Iron Curtain: 20th Century State Socialism in Eastern Europe
DSA, BDS, and Palestine Solidarity: A Panel Discussion
Indigenous Resistance in a World On Fire w/ Nick Estes and more
Empire in Crisis: a Teach-In and Symposium on U.S. Imperialism Today
Labor Rights and Struggle in Mexico
October 18, 2020—Watch DSA Labor and DSA International Committee Labor panel, including author and journalist David Bacon, Suzanna Miller of the IndustriALL International Union Federation, and Héctor de la Cueva of the CILAS Labor Center of Mexico City on the conditions of struggle for workers’ rights and politics in Mexico.
Popular Uprising & Counter-Revolution in Iraq: A Teach-In
October 17, 2020
An IC Middle East + Africa subcommittee teach-in on the current situation in Iraq, marking the one-year anniversary of the Iraqi popular uprising.
Since October 2019, Iraq has seen massive demonstrations against the political corruption and economic malfeasance of the country’s governing class. The protesters in cities across the country’s south and in the capital of Baghdad have sustained this movement for a year now. “Even if the current movement fails to achieve a political revolution,” the Iraq scholar Fanar Haddad has observed, “it is undoubtedly a revolutionary movement that has already achieved a cultural revolution.”
Covid-19, Crisis, and Conflict in Europe
September 26, 2020
More than 170,000 people have died in Europe from Covid-19 and the economy has pitched into a crippling recession. Healthcare and political systems across the continent have been pushed to the breaking point, raising critical questions about the role of governments, trade unions, social movements and political parties on both the left and the right.
The IC – Europe brought together a panel of European activists and experts to discuss the depth of the crisis and how the left and social movements are responding.
Forum: Labor & Popular Struggles in the Middle East & North Africa
Participants include Joel Beinin, Bill Fletcher, Brahim Rouabah, and Rabab Elnaiem. Moderated by Ella Wind.
How Should Socialists Understand the Israeli Election?
The Middle East + Africa subcommittee host an online event for understanding the recent Israeli elections and what their implications are in Israel, Palestine, and the United States. Basma Fahoum, Haggai Matar and Osamah Khalil presented, and the event was moderated by Joel Beinin.
Speaker Bios:
–Basma Fahoum–
Basma has a master’s degree in culture research from Tel Aviv University. She is currently a PhD candidate at Stanford University, working on the history of commercial tobacco cultivation in Palestine in the late Ottoman and British Mandatory periods, as well as in Israel. She serves as a co-editor of the Social History Workshop which is published on Haaretz’s website. Basma is a member of Academia for Equality, an organization promoting an equal, accessible, and demilitarized education in Israel and the OPTs. She was for several years an activist with the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality, one of the components of the Joint List.
–Haggai Matar–
Haggai Matar is an Israeli journalist and political activist. Haggai is the Executive Director of 972 – Advancement of Citizen Journalism, an Israeli nonprofit committed to democracy, social justice, freedom of information and ending the Israeli occupation. The nonprofit publishes two independent media outlets: +972 Magazine, operating in English since 2010, and Local Call, operating in Hebrew since 2014, and co-published with Just Vision.
Haggai is an award-winning journalist and political activist. Before his current position he was a co-founding editor of Local Call, a blogger on +972 Magazine, and had written for Ha’aretz, The Forward and other outlets. Haggai is also a board member of the Journalists’ Union in Israel, and was head of the Ma’ariv Journalists’ Committee.
In 2002, Haggai was imprisoned for two years for refusing Israeli military conscription. Since then, he has been active in various anti-occupation organizations, labor unions, educational activities and initiatives for peace, equality and social justice in Israel-Palestine.
–Osamah Khalil–
Osamah Khalil is an Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Khalil is the author of America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State (Harvard University Press, 2016) and editor of United States Relations with China and Iran: Toward the Asian Century (Bloomsbury, 2019). He has been a frequent media commentator and contributor, including for the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, The National, Al Akhbar, and Al Jazeera.
–Joel Beinin–
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. From 2006 to 2008 he served as Director of Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo. In 2002 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. Beinin is a member of the Portland, OR, DSA chapter.