This talk was part of the NYC ISO's Friday Socialism series.

This meeting took up debates from the Fourth Congress of the Communist International on the issue of the United Front and the Workers Government. These first took place at a moment of retreat for the international Left after the high tide of the 20th century revolutionary movements and represented a reckoning with questions of strategy at a moment of relative retreat. It is in this context that the discussions of the United Front and the possibility of a Workers' Government (i.e. a ruling government of the parties of the workers' movement, in a non-revolutionary moment) took place.

Participants were encouraged to read two pieces from ISR #97:
- The workers’ government debate in the Communist International by Jen Roesch
- Workers’ government: Fiction, pseudonym, or transition? from the John Riddell edited and translated book Towards the Unted Front - Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International 1922 Both from ISR 97