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    LA Is Burning with Dennis Broe

    Recording available on YouTube

    Dennis Broe examines the history of LA wildfires to shed light on the ingrained power, the structural class and racial imbalances, and the wanton devastation of a city organized not for its people but for its elites.

  • ‘Citizen Marx’ with author Bruno Leipold

    Recording available on YouTube

    What better time than the present moment to revisit Karl Marx’s commitment to the democratic republic as a necessary (if not sufficient) step on the path to human freedom? Author Bruno Leipold presents his recently published 'Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought.'

  • Marchers with banner, "Capitalism Isn't Working"

    Marx’s Capital Volume 1: A Short Course for Today

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    Have you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital, Vol 1, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-week study group covering key sections of the book.

  • Dominican women confront US troops

    60 Years Since the April Revolution in Santo Domingo

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    Join us on May 3 for a panel to commemorate the 6oth anniversary of the April Revolution in Santo Domingo and discuss its political implications, the role of working-class Afro-Dominicans, women, LGBTQ people, Haitian internationalist fighters, socialists, writers and artists as well as the worldwide international solidarity movement that ensued in the face of imperialist onslaught.

    Free

  • Karl Marx and Republicanism: Reading ‘Citizen Marx’

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    What better time than the present moment to revisit Karl Marx’s commitment to the democratic republic as a necessary (if not sufficient) step on the path to human freedom? Over five weekly meetings we will read and discuss Bruno Leipold’s recently published Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought.

    Free

  • ‘Roses for Gramsci’ with Andy Merrifield

    Recording available on YouTube

    Author Andy Merrifield presents 'Roses for Gramsci,' a remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci.

    Free
  • Hollywood Sign at Night

    Darkest Los Angeles

    Institute for the Radical Imagination NY, United States

    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.

  • Trotsky in New York Walking Tour

    Join Alex Steinberg and Daniel Lazare for a historical walking tour of Lower Manhattan as we explore some of the places where Leon Trotsky visited and worked during his nine week stay in New York in early 1917.

    $10.00

  • Aristotle, Hegel, Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue

    Recording available on YouTube

    Join us for a dialogue on philosophical themes featuring the authors of two forthcoming books. Michael Lazarus is the author of 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx,' and Jensen Suther is the author of 'True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom.' 

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  • Hegel for Radicals: The Phenomenology of Spirit

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    Over 16 Saturdays, beginning March 8, we will read and discuss one of the most influential books of all time, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. This massive retelling of humanity defies traditional divisions between history, philosophy, comedy, and tragedy.

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    Karl Marx in America with Andrew Hartman

    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this October 26, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. Historian Andrew Hartman introduces his new book, Karl Marx in America. To read Karl Marx ... Read more

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    Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, with Mitchell Abidor

    Recording available on YouTube

    Join us for a conversation with Mitchell Abidor, author of the forthcoming book, "Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary."
    Today, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels, Victor Serge is highly esteemed by virtually all segments of the left. But who was this man, who led such a thrilling life on the frontlines of history?

  • Author Brian Kwoba; Hubert Harrison with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Big Bill Haywood, and Paterson silk strike leaders; book cover

    Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism

    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this November 8, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. Brian Kwoba's recently published Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism introduces the working-class journalist, ... Read more

  • Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III

    A weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume III, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. This work integrates and completes Marx's analysis, 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 of capitalism.