Classes and Reading Groups

MEP organizes political education in a number of formats, all geared to support you in your work, study and political engagement. Typically meeting weekly, we have reading groups, similar to topical book clubs. We also have focused study and classes, meeting weekly, twice a month or monthly, with recommended readings, questions for reflection, participant presentations, and special guests.

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Events

Today

  • Monthly Literature Group: ‘Tijuana Straits’

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    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    The MEP Literature Group’s new monthly series meets on or about the last Saturday of each month. Our August selection is ‘Tijuana Straits’ by Kem Nunn, a noir fiction set along the US-Mexico border.

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  • Antonio Gramsci Studies

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    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    The ongoing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meet on Sundays at 11 am ET. We are reading and exploring ‘Selections from the Prison Notebooks’, ‘Selections from Cultural Writings’, ‘Selections from Political Writings’, and Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts.

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  • book covers for We Still Here and the Nerd Reich

    Topics in Political Strategy

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    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    As we head toward the US fall elections, the Topics in Political Strategy reading group will continue our mix of currently-published substantive analytical pieces and a monthly book-length treatment of important topics of political theory. Readings include ‘We Still Here’ by Marc Lamont Hill, and ‘The Nerd Reich’ by Gil Duran.

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    The Works of Henri Lefebvre: Four Lectures

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    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Virtual Event

    We introduce the work of French Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre through four monthly lectures presented by cultural studies scholar Iván Zatz-Díaz.

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  • Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish

    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    A weekly study group on Marx’s Capital, Volume III, based on Beverley Best’s ‘The Automatic Fetish.’ Marx’s work integrates and completes his analysis of capital, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system.