FIST organizes anti-imperialist youth workshop

FIST activists from Raleigh, N.C., and Washington, D.C., participated in the annual National Conference on Org anized Resistance (NCOR) held at American University in Washington, D.C.

Yolanda Carrington, Dante Strobino and this writer led a workshop on “Marxist Perspectives: Resisting Imper ialism from Iraq to Venezuela.” Work shop leaders and participants discussed Lenin’s definition of imperialism.

A Marxist understanding of the anti-imperialist struggles in Iraq and Vene zuela as part of international class conflict was brought to light and a lively conversation developed about the effects of imperialist policies on people in the United States.

The devastation caused by the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and the recent death of 16 coal miners in a spate of mine disasters across West Virginia was used to illustrate how capitalist policies are detrimental to the working class and oppressed living inside the imperialist countries.

NCOR is an annual national conference that attracts thousands of participants for discussion about tendencies, strategies and tactics in the progressive movement.

—David Hoskins