BORIS KAGARLITSKY
and the challenges
of the left today
and the challenges
of the left today
October 8, 2024 online conference
FEATURING
- Nancy FraserAmerican philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, professor of philosophy at the New School in New York City. Fraser is widely known for her critique of identity politics and her work on the concept of justice.
- Patrick BondDistinguished Professor at the University of Johannesburg Department of Sociology, where he directs the Centre for Social Change.
- Greg YudinRussian philosopher, theorist of democracy. Research Fellow at Princeton University.
- Alex CallinicosEmeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London; editor of International Socialism 2009-20.; columnist for Socialist Worker (London). Books include The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1983), Making History (1987), Against Postmodernism (1989), Imperialism and Global Political Economy (2009), Deciphering Capital (2014), and The New Age of Catastrophe (2023). Editor, with Stathis Kouvelakis and Lucia Pradella),The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism (2021).
- Hanna PerekhodaMember of solidaritéS in Vaud Canton, Switzerland, and a PhD candidate in Political Science (University of Lausanne).
- Robert BrennerAmerican economic historian. He is a professor emeritus of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, editor of the socialist journal Against the Current, and editorial committee member of New Left Review.
- Ilya MatveevPolitical scientist formerly based in St Petersburg, Russia. Currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
- Ilya BudraitskisMoscow-based historian and political writer. He is current member of editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine, Openleft.ru and LeftEast.
- Bill Fletcher JrFormer president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and in the leadership of several other projects.
- Ksenia KagarlitskaiaDaughter of Boris Kagarlitsky, organizer of the international festival in support of political prisoners "Freedom Zone".
- Speaker from Feminist Anti-War ResistanceGroup of Russian feminists founded in February 2022 to protest against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Speaker from MemorialNon-profit organization engaged in the study of political repression in the USSR and modern Russia, promoting the moral and legal rehabilitation of persons subjected to political repression.
- Trevor NgwaneSouth African socialist, anti-apartheid activist, author and teacher at the University of Johannesburg.
- Pavel KudyukinCo-chair of the University Solidarity Trade Union, a member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia, and was the Deputy Minister of Labour of Russia (1991-1993)
- Jayati GhoshProfessor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (US) since January 2021. Her latest book is The Making of a Catastrophe: The Disastrous Economic Fallout of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India.
- Anna OchkinaRussian sociologist, is Associate Professor and head of the Department of the Methodology of Science, Social Theories and Technologies at the Penza State University (Russia). She is Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Research and Social Movements (IGSO) and deputy editor of the journal Levaya politika (Left Politics).
SUPPORT US
The funds collected are used to organize the campaign for the release of Boris and cover the expenses for the lawyers.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Ever defiant in the face of repression and a five-year jail term, Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia’s best-known socialist thinker, has just published his latest book, The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left.
This special online conference in Kagarlitsky’s honour will address the double aspect of his contribution: his wide-ranging analysis of the left’s dilemmas
in the face of multiple global crises and the advance of the far right;
and his resistance — together with other persecuted anti-war activists in the Russian Federation — to the authoritarianism of the regime of Vladimir Putin.
After an opening address
by Nancy Fraser the four sessions
of the teleconference will cover:
by Nancy Fraser the four sessions
of the teleconference will cover:
- Discussion of The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left
- The situation of the Left in Russia
- Imperialism(s) today
- Political repression and the threat to intellectual freedom in Russia and beyond
- The final session will also launch the Kagarlitsky Network for Academic and Intellectual Freedom
HOSTED BY
- Anti-capitalist, internationalist and politically independent publisher.
- The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation was founded in 2000 and has awarded fourteen prizes.
- The Centre for Social Change (CSC) focusses on social change in South Africa, but also undertakes comparative and theoretical study.
OUR SPONSORS
Organised by: Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign
