Building the Progressive Majority and a Socialist Future

by Cathy Hodge McCoid

The 6th national CCDS convention, titled “Building the Progressive Majority and a Socialist Future,” met in San Francisco July 24–26.  It was preceded by a symposium (“Capitalism in Crisis: Socialism for the 21st Century”) on Thursday, July 23, sponsored by the Committees of Correspondence Education Fund. 

Angela Davis was the moderator for the symposium’s evening program, with international speakers giving insight into the struggles to build progressive coalitions in their own countries and internationally.  Participants included Chris Matlhako, from the South Africa Communist Party; Marcos Garcia, Second Secretary of Labor Affairs in Venezuela; Helmut Scholz, head of international relations for Die Linke (The Left Party) of Germany; and Jackeline Rivera from El Salvador, representing the FMLN.