Internationalism and Solidarity Today

A transcript of remarks delivered at Making Worlds Bookstore, Philadelphia, on November 9, 2021.

I’m going to ask for your patience and possibly forgiveness at the outset.  I haven’t done any public speaking in a while, a practice that has always been a source of mixed feelings for me.  I normally speak off the cuff about the topic at hand, or about a million offhand topics, but for this event I decided to compose my thoughts.  I want to be precise to the degree that I’m capable.  It seems unkind, anyway, to subject you to a bunch of tangents that may or may not amount to something coherent.  I’m more interested in the ensuing discussion and so I’ll try to give us something useful to think about. 

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