Public Talk: Charmaine Chua: “What Doew Anti-Imperial Working Class Internationalism Mean Today?”

Charmaine will examine the prospects and challenges facing anti-imperialist working-class struggle in North America today. Drawing on ten years of scholarship and organizing in and around the logistics sector – through port blockages in the Palestinian solidarity movement and through organizing with an independent union of Amazon warehouse workers – this talk suggests that contemporary “internationalist” thinking remains too wedded to immaterial goals of “consciousness-raising” insufficiently attentive to the concrete challenges of rooting internationalism in grassroots working class movements.
The talk is a collaboration between IU’s Cultural Studies Program and ROSA. for more information, go to rosabloom.org