00:00:00 Webinar series intro
00:04:46 Speaker introduction
00:06:55 Bill’s political biography
00:11:30 African Americans and the US labour movement
00:15:53 Race and class in the US
00:20:17 Social movements and Marxism in the seventies
00:25:15 Class and privilege
00:30:25 History of capitalism, class as overdetermined
00:34:42 Red-brown politics, right-wing anti-imperialism
00:40:20 Stalinism, campism, confusionism
00:51:24 Anti-campist politics, multipolarity
00:56:20 The rise of a new right
01:09:10 Trade unions and antifascism
01:16:45 Internationalism, left strategy
01:39:10 Q&A
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