In Chicago during May Day weekend 2010, the Institute of Working Class History holding a conference to discuss, debate and analyze labor and social struggles (both past and present).

The conference will cover an array of important historical and political topics. In addition to purely academic pursuits, conference participants will be able to participate in the May Day rally organized by the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Illinois Labor History Society. If there is sufficient interest, a Chicago labor history bus tour also will be organized.

Richard Wolff will address the conference at The Plenary on the Economic Crisis from 10am - 12pm.

Initial list of participants and endorsers: Suzie Weissman, Saint Mary's College of California; Bryan Palmer, Trent University (Canada); Ronald van Raak, M.P. (The Netherlands); Kim Bobo, Interfaith Worker Justice; Peter Hudis, Loyola University; Sungur Savran, Author (Turkey); Spectre Magazine (Belgium); Lea Haro, University of Glasgow (Scotland); Kevin Anderson, US- Santa Barbara; George Gonos, SUNY- Potsdam; Lauren Langman, Loyola University; Alexander Pantsov, Capital University; Francis King, Secretary - Socialist History Society (London); Mark Lause, University of Cincinnati; Steven McGiffen, American Graduate School of International Relations (Paris); Eric A. Schuster, Truman College; Knud Jensen, DPU Aarhus University (Copenhagen); Axel Fair-Schulz, SUNY- Potsdam; JP Page, CGT (France); Dianne Feeley, Against the Current; Jerry Harris, DeVry University; Theo Bergmann, (Stuttgart); Dan LaBotz, Author (Cincinnati); William A. Pelz (Chicago); Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, retired Surendra Nath Banerjee Professor, Calcutta University. (India); Len Kaufmann (Wisconsin)

Official Conference Website