Spring 2026

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  • Protective Presence in the West Bank

    Recording available on YouTube
    Special Event

    Live event concluded, but you may watch the recording on YouTube. The only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are protective presence activists. Celeste Marcus and Mitch Abidor have both spent time in the West Bank doing protective presence, accompanying Palestinians in their fields and ... Read more

  • Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Tuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Join us for a new format for the "Historical Roots..." study, reworked for 2026 as "topics in strategic studies." We will select and read one significant book of political theory or history a month, focused on understanding the stresses and directions for change in the present moment. Each week, we will ... Read more

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  • The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
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    Join ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight ... Read more

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  • Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 2 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations', which takes up the nature and functioning of capital.

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  • Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this Spring with a ten-session seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.  This work is a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the kind of institutions that are required for its realization.  We will debunk previous myths that Hegel was a reactionary spokesman of the Prussian monarchy and ... Read more

  • Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    The continuing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meets Sundays at 11 am ET and will read and explore from: Selections from the Prison Notebooks Selections from Cultural Writings Selections from Political Writings Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts. Participants may join in at any time. We share a vast ... Read more

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  • Three titles to read for the SF Reading Group for Spring 2026

    Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Alternate Mondays, next on April 13, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, and also known by its alter ego "visionary fiction" and other identities, including horror, more than ever offers space for exploration of class, race, gender, ... Read more

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  • Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – On the Circulation of Capital

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    A ten-session study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume II, The Process of Circulation of Capital. Marx addresses the question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met, in the necessary proportions, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society.