Time constraints prevented me from attending today's sessions of the
Left Forum in New York, but I do want report back on what I saw
yesterday. As a point of introduction, the Left Forum used to be
called the Socialist Scholars Conference but was renamed as a
consequence of a power struggle within the organizing committee.
Rightwing social democrats sought to purge the conference of its more
radical members including the conference organizer Eric Canepa who
they viewed as insufficiently Serbophobic. You can read more about this here.
On Saturday morning I went to a panel on "Understanding Turkey Today:
Class Dynamics, State Restructuring and Political Alternatives". A
paper was read by its three co-authors who were college professors
from Turkey (Fuat Ercan, Marmara University; Selime Guzelsari, Abant
Izzet Baysal University; Sebnem Oguz, Trent University in Canada) and
judging by their youthful appearance, part of a new generation of
Turkish Marxism.
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/left-forum-2008/
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