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  • Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    By engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers' inquiry, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions, the technical composition of capital, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics, strategies, organizational forms and objectives. These workers’ inquiries, from call center workers to platform, trucking, cleaning, logistics, mining, auto factories, teachers, and adjunct professors, are re-energizing unions, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers' organizations.

    $7 – $25

  • AUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Going beyond platform work and the gig economy, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilise innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers, as well as to keep wages and worker representation under control. They also show that workers are not taking this lying down, providing case studies of new and exciting form of resistance that are springing up across the globe.

    $7 – $25

  • Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World

    Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation, mass production, gender, affective and reproductive labour, syndicalism and independent unions, and labour and Leftist social and political movements, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. All books from the series are available at the MEP on-line book store.

    $12 – $18

  • Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World

    Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation, mass production, gender, affective and reproductive labour, syndicalism and independent unions, and labour and Leftist social and political movements, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. All books from the series are available at the MEP on-line book store.

    $12 – $18

  • WOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Drawing on many important figures of the movements such as Tom Barker, Har Dayal, Joe Hill, James Larkin and William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, and exploring particular industries including shipping, mining, and agriculture, this book describes how the IWW and its ideals travelled around the world.

    $7 – $25

  • Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Andrew Kolin presents a detailed explanation of the essential elements that characterize capital’s relations to the working class and how capital relies on various forms of repressing reform and revolutionary movements by workers. The repression is directly linked to the class struggle between capital and labor. The starting point examines labor repression after the American Revolution. Andrew’s book then follows the role of the state along with the explosive growth of American capitalism to analyze the long history of capital and labor conflict with details of the US state being aligned with the interests of capital throughout American history. 

    $7 – $11

  • Urban Displacements and Contemporary Capitalism

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Susanne Soederberg argues that historical and geographical configurations of monetized governance, including landlords, employers and inter-scalar state practices, have served to reproduce urban displacements and obfuscate their gendered, class and racialized underpinnings. The outcome is the everyday facilitation and normalization of urban poverty and social marginalization on one side, and capital accumulation on the other.

    $7 – $11

  • Capital, Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital

    Capital, Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    We will begin our study of Volume II study by situating this volume in relation to the historical process of development of capitalist society which is premised on its specific social form of societal re-production, the production of capital. To do so we will study the closing sections of the Penguin edition of Volume I, specifically, Part VIII: "So-called Primitive Accumulation" and the “Appendix: Results of the Immediate Process of Production”.

    Join us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world.

    $70.00 – $100.00

  • Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi

    Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    This 10-week session has four sessions remaining which feature a close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. We will look to connect cultures and their human rights struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci, particularly Marx, but also Machiavelli and Croce. This seminar is accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. Join at any time.

    $15.00 – $45.00