Module 5: Dare to Invent the Future
Class: Development of Socialism in the Arab World
Date & Time: Weds, April 17, 6:30-8:30PM
Description:
“The Arab nationalists … realised that they could not win the war against imperialism unless they relied on…those classes who fight against imperialism not only for their dignity, but for their livelihood. And it was this that would lead directly to socialism.”
-Ghassan Kanafani
The development of Marxism-Leninism in the context of the intense and protracted struggle against colonialism and imperialism in the Arab region is an essential development for students of revolution to investigate. Looking into key Arab Marxist thinkers and revolutionaries, their proposals, contributions and debates, and the conditions they confronted, we will begin to develop an approach to understanding this period and its legacy for struggle today.
Instructor: Yara Shoufani is a PhD student at York University and an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement. Layan Fuleihan, Education Director at The People’s Forum, is a popular educator, organizer, and lifelong student of historical and contemporary struggles of the oppressed.
