• Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance

    Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.

    Free – $80
  • Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance

    Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.

    Free – $80
  • Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance

    Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.

    Free – $80
  • Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance

    Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.

    Free – $80
  • Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance

    Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.

    Free – $80
  • Imperialism: The Long View and the Big Picture

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    In eight weekly sessions guided by Dan La Botz, we will look at imperialism in the long view, from the ancient world to today. We will examine the experience of imperialism and the theoretical justifications for it, as well as anti-imperialist movements and their arguments. We will look at imperialism as economic phenomenon, as political strategy, as cultural experience, and as psychological affect. We will discuss imperialism and gender and imperialism and the environment.

    Free – $80
  • Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance

    Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    September 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.

    Free – $80
  • Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance

    Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Reading group in progress, ending 2/8/24. September 2023 marked fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group is reading Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.

  • State of Emergency in US Higher Education

    Recording available on YouTube

    Alan Wald presents an overview of the state of emergency in higher education in the United States that recalls earlier eras of extreme political repression, such as McCarthyism in the 1950s. Students, faculty, and staff at US colleges and universities who stand up for Palestinian human rights and stopping the genocide in Gaza are being threatened with deportation and punished by the administrations.

  • Trump, the State, and Global Capital

    Recording available on YouTube

    Looking at the early weeks of the Trump regime through a Marxists lens presents a major challenge, but who better to meet it than Steve Maher and Clara Mattei, whose historical analyses of finance capital and the capitalist state have garnered well-deserved praise. Join us as we engage Steve and Clara in an open-ended conversation aimed at bringing some clarity to the burgeoning chaos that is shaking up U.S. and global capitalism and the imperialist state system.

  • Darkest Los Angeles

    Institute for the Radical Imagination NY, United States
    Reading Group

    Dennis Broe leads a group reading of his five Los Angeles novels set in the film-noir period of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The contradictions we will unearth in that postwar period, the period of crime films that visually documented this seedy reality, have never been resolved, only continually papered over, and so they resound today.

  • Roundtable on Venezuela, Oil, and Global Politics

    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this January 21, 2026, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. A conversation among leading left critics of the Trump administration's attack on Venezuelan sovereignty and its attempt to seize that nation's oil wealth. Matt Huber challenges interpretations of these events as simply another case of "blood for oil." Steve Maher ... Read more

  • 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